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Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Perrine)
Thu Jul 29 15:41:39 1999
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:54:37 -0700
From: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>
To: gnu@toad.com
Cc: whgiii@openpgp.net, jya@pipeline.com, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
In-reply-to: <199907290052.RAA02081@toad.com> (message from John Gilmore on
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:52:04 -0700)
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:52:04 -0700, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> said:
>> >use of the Internet to distribute encryption products
>> >will render Wassenaar's controls immaterial."
See below :-) s/Internet/.GOV and .MIL computers/
John> If Ms. Reno had a clue, she'd fire Louis Freeh, publish PGP and
John> CryptoMozilla on the DoJ web site, prevent crimes instead of fighting
John> crimes, and advocate civil rights instead of destroying civil rights.
Ever taken a look for pgp.2.6.x, Kerberos, SSH or other "controlled
software" available for anonymous FTP from .GOV and .MIL systems? A
few minutes with your favorite search engine is quite enlightening :-)
If only there was some way to use this as evidence in any one of the
ongoing crypto court cases...
...without nailing the poor sysadmins at those sites that are doing
their best to provide a safe, secure computing environment for their
users in spite of current brain-dead US regulations.
--tep
