[51895] in Cypherpunks
Re: Lawz to be.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Sun Mar 10 21:50:42 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:43 EDT
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: IN%"PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com" "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" 10-MAR-1996 01:15:57.84
>Thought the gotcha was down in the part about the Secretary of Commerce.
>My reading is that the secretary will still be required to grant
>approval for commercial export. Is past the part about no regulation
>inside the US (which is true now - still would be nice to see a "Congress
>shall make no law..."). The puzzler is the requirement that a comperable
>foreign product must exist before permission to export will be granted.
>Will this be like "comparable product" price matching in discount houses ?
>Somehow there never is one...
Quite. A better format would be "as hard or harder for the NSA to
decrypt," given the publically stated purpose for ITAR.
-Allen
