On the other hand, they may have restricted other work. Perhaps more flowers could have bloomed. Maybe we will see a great deal more development now. I think it will have a positive effect. This stands as a peculiar throwback to the Cold War in all public discussions.
Cryptography is an essential enabling technology for electronic commerce.
And a lot of the features that we would want, we have difficulty implementing them because we don't want to install features that can't be installed in our entire customer base. I don't know. On balance, I think it's an attempt to remove from public key cryptography an essential ingredient that is needed in a diverse community such as the Internet. But the Internet business community is in many different countries with many different businesses using different kinds of software and different objectives for business. You do not have that kind of trust to have centralized access to someone who holds the keys.