Status of Cryptography Research in implementation of the EUCD

[Owen Lewis]

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> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Graham
> Sent: 14 August 2002 23:15
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Status of Cryptography Research in implementation of the
> EUCD
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> On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 10:09 pm, Owen Lewis wrote:
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> >         -       If a researcher publishes a method to breach
> > copyright the only good that is likely served is that of thieves and
> > there is a palpable risk of harm to all the holders of copyright
> > protected by that method as well as to the owner of the method
> > itself.
>
> Much the same argument was made against the open source community in
> distributing software that was both free of cost and free to be shared.


So you say. I see no link at all. Any person may make something himself and
give it away if that pleases him.

Do not elide this with the giving away of information unlawfully obtained on
the work of another, the publication of which can serves only an unlawful
end.

Owen