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Crypto-Anarchism makes use of strong public key cryptography to enforce privacy. Cryptoanarchs believe that by creating encrypted virtual communities where everyone is absolutly anonymous will make the world a better place.

Such virtual and anonymous communities makes everyone using them totaly untracable. Cryptoanarchs belives that inside their communities is the only place where you can be totaly free, because in all other communitys there will allways be someone that will listen at what you say and know who you are. Privacy is to reveal oneself selectivly and unless you cannot do that as you wish, you have no privacy. Inside the cryptosocieties, it is impossible to know whom you are talking to unless the speaker wants to reveal herself. It is also impossible to eavesdrop into others private conversations.

There are some plans in making untracable money for these virtual communitys. The idea is that you should be able to buy and/or sell anything you like anonymously - a kind of extension to the real world from the anonymity at the encrypted virtual society. Encrypted money would make it possible to ignore some of the laws of the physical world. Mixed with the total anonymity at the virtual society, such money would make it possible to buy and sell anything anonymously. This is true freedom acording to the cryptoanarchs. Ofcorse, such freedom could be abused by criminals. The cryptoanarchs tackle this problem by claiming that those people is allready communicating pretty much anonymously - the cryptosocieties will just bring anonymity to the odinary people. And besides, it will happen sooner or later, it is impossible to outlaw cryptography in reality. (Alas, it it illegal with strong cryptography in some countries, like France.)

see also cypherpunk

outside links http://www.invisiblenet.net