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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Jan 6 14:53:04 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:48:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-to: perry@piermont.com
[I thought this would be of interest --pm]
From: Edupage Editors <educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu>
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Subject: Edupage, 5 January 1997
[...]
U.S. ASKED TO HOLD OFF ON NEW ENCRYPTION RULES
Lawyers for Illinois computer science professor Dan Bernstein have asked the
U.S. government to delay enforcing new export restrictions on encryption
software until a court can judge their constitutionality. If the government
ignores Bernstein's request, the attorneys will seek a court order barring
the new rules' enforcement. "The new encryption rules are a pointless shell
game," says the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is
backing Bernstein's suit. The new rules allow companies to export software
with encryption codes of 56 bits or longer, provided they agree to give the
government computer "keys" to allow law enforcement officials to decode
protected transmissions. (Investor's Business Daily 2 Jan 97 A33)
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