[52616] in Cypherpunks
Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary? (Was List O' , shame)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Mon Mar 25 16:00:46 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:24:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Cc: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu, declan+@CMU.EDU, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603251937.LAA03810@infinity.c2.org>
On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, sameer wrote:
> > I think many people on the list here had the right idea generally. No
> > legislation is good legislation for crypto. Really the ITAR
> > applications are beseiged right now, and will probably fizzle out of
> > their own accord, not to mention the fact that they are de facto moot.
> >
> > In practice it is trivial to subvert ITAR for the purposes of
> > worldwide crypto availability.
>
> You've obviously never brought a crypto product to market
> before.
No, in fact, I have not.
What are the impediments to corporate marketing of crypto where the
marketing and distrubting entity is foreign? (I honestly don't know)
Granted, worldwide *personal* use of crypto availability is
> trivial, but not corporate.
Sufficently entrench personal use of crypto, and the personal/corporate
use distinction ceases to exist.
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