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RE: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Jul 22 16:20:52 1999
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>,
<cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:07:21 -0700
In-Reply-To: <19990722023250.FBPG25099@alaptop.hotwired.com>
Well, duh! [As predicted by myself and others years ago, asking Congress to
look at crypto can at best have neutral, but will most likely carry negative
results to crypto freedom].
--Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 19:31
> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net; cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version
>
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> The text of the amendment (in PDF):
> http://www.house.gov/hasc/press.htm
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> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20872.html
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> Industry Crypto Bill in Peril
> by Declan McCullagh
>
> 5:00 p.m. 21.Jul.99.PDT
> WASHINGTON -- And you thought
> Congress was going to override White
> House rules restricting US firms from
> exporting encryption products. Well, you
> were wrong.
>
> The House Armed Services Committee
> voted 47-6 Wednesday to replace an
> industry-endorsed encryption bill with
> substitute legislation drafted by law
> enforcement advocates.
>
> [...]
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