TelecomWorldWire, “Compuserve Moves for Porn Techno Fix,” January 11, 1995.

In the Internet’s first life, encryption technology was on the side of privacy.
Its most common use was to keep information secret. But in the Internet’s
next life, encryption technology’smost important role will be inmaking
the Net more regulable.
As an Identity Layer gets built into the Net, the easy
ability to demand some form of identity as a condition to accessing the
resources of the Net increases.
As that ability increases, its prevalence will increase as well.
Indeed, as Shawn Helms describes, the next generation of the
Internet Protocol—IPv6— “marks each packet with an encryption ‘key’ that
cannot be altered or forged, thus securely identifying the packet’s origin.
This authentication function can identify every sender and receiver of information
over the Internet, thus making it nearly impossible for people to remain anonymous on the Internet.”