[52737] in Cypherpunks
Re: About Triple DES ......
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutant Rob)
Wed Mar 27 06:44:33 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:17:53 -0500
From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Rich Graves wrote:
[..]
> At some point in this exercise, though, we might be "raising awareness"
> among the wrong people, to cite Tim May. I wouldn't want NAFTA, the WTO,
> and so on enforcing ITAR.
It's conceivable that companies could appeal to those organizations to
repeal ITAR crypto limits (unless an international crypto treaty is set
up... uh ohh), since the limit unfairly disadvantages North American
companies, and to some extent even foreign companies that might
manufacture software in the US.
