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Re: Administration Updates Encryption Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Thu Sep 16 17:22:53 1999
Message-Id: <199909161939.MAA16615@toad.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
gnu@toad.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:39:27 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
> For Immediate Release
> September 16, 1998
> STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
Robert, that was *last year*'s encryption policy "liberalization".
Great joke though. I read through four or five paragraphs before
it became too obvious. Remember what they promised last year, and
what the regulations actually delivered -- as you read this year's
promises.
John