Cryptographers Debate Top Security Needs

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But the panel also agreed that it will take a coordinated effort to address America’s security challenges and that technology alone isn’t enough. Martin Hellman, a Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford, said, for example, that if all e-mail was protected by encryption or other technology, it would be vastly more secure but probably won’t happen because “spy agencies wouldn’t like it.”

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