[87141] in Cypherpunks
RE: Oxley Amendment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brock)
Thu Sep 25 23:26:39 1997
From: Michael Brock <hrast@flash.net>
To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declan@well.com>,
Lucky Green
<shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: "cypherpunks@cyberpass.net" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:05:23 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Brock <hrast@flash.net>
I believe (as I am sure most here do) that crypto of any strength will =
become illegal, and that anyone sending a message in Pig Latin will soon =
be shot on sight by FBI the "protecting" our rights...
Any control on encyrption, domestic or exportable, is unacceptable in =
today's high computing power society... Mandatory key escrow, well, you =
thought the IRS was corrupt...
"Have you cracked RC5 today?"
M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Declan McCullagh [SMTP:declan@well.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 1997 10:29 AM
To: Lucky Green
Cc: Michael Brock; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Oxley Amendment
Lucky has it right. SAFE is extremely unlikely to go to the floor =
without
additional "compromise."
Then there's the "compromise" with whatever bill the Senate coughs up.
Remember that pro-crypto legislation is dead there; only McCain-Kerrey =
got
out of committee. Also remember the Senate is more conservative...
Then there's the reality that no pro-crypto legislation would get past a
presidential veto...
-Declan
At 07:16 -0700 9/25/97, Lucky Green wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Michael Brock wrote:
>
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>> I wonder if Mr. Solomon of NY will rethink his decision to not bring
>> up SAFE without Oxley to the entire House after the unprecedented
>> coaltion of companies and individual groups that came together to
>> make sure that mandatory key recovery stays a "1984" like dream. I
>> find it incomprehensible that one man, would block the introduction
>> of this bill, after it being proved that this is what his
>> constituents want....
>
>What in the world makes you believe that Mr. Solomon's constituents =
would
>want SAFE to go the the floor? SAFE *must* be defeated, with or without
>the Oxley ammendment.
>
>-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP encrypted email preferred.
> "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
