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Re: Cats Out of Bags
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Jan 31 12:26:34 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:10:44 -0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199701292343.PAA16370@toad.com>
> "When I talk to other governments," [David L. Aaron] said,
> "they still don't feel that the cat is out of the bag."
Aaron's denying that the cat is out of the bag?
He was fashionably dressed in a Lion Tamer's outfit,
waving a whip, and trying to herd hundreds of small furry mammals
to jump through a hoop and back into a clawed-up army duffel-bag!
"Cats? Haven't seen any cats around here! Pay no attention to these,umm,
Siberian Hamsters that I'm evaluating for export approval."
> "Other governments were upset with the 56-bit export allowance.
> They said it was going to undermine their national security."
On this point, the other governments are correct.
It really _is_ tougher to maintain a nation-state when your
former subjects can have private conversations with each other
and with other governments' former subjects......
And even 56 bits is a start.
# Thanks; Bill
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