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CLINTON PROPOSES .4 BILLION FOR COMPUTER SECURITY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Feb 7 20:15:07 1999
Date: 8 Feb 1999 01:00:05 -0000
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
CLINTON PROPOSES $1.4 BILLION FOR COMPUTER SECURITY
As part of its call for new spending on advanced technology R&D, the
Clinton
administration is proposing that $1.464 billion be spent on "critical
infrastructure protection and computer security," an increase of 40% over
what's currently spent in this area. Most of the funding is earmarked for
applied research on computer security through the Defense Department, but
about $3 million would go toward new computer science scholarships with the
goal of creating a "cyber-corps" of electronic network defenders. Congress
is likely to approve or even increase the proposed funds, according to Rep.
Curt Weldon (R-Penn.), who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on
research. (Science 29 Jan 99)
"Mary had a crypto key,
she kept it in escrow,
and everything that Mary said,
the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL
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]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
