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Encryption Rules Change Delayed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Minow)
Tue Dec 14 11:34:36 1999
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:35:18 -0800
From: Martin Minow <minow@pobox.com>
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In its Tuesday edition, the New York Times reports that the
new encryption rules will not be released this week, as
originally planned.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/capital/14capital.html
"The delay gives officials another month to address the widespread
criticism that greeted a draft of the regulations when they were
released just before Thanksgiving. Critics said the draft fell far
short of White House promises to lift restrictions on the retail
data-scrambling products used to keep computer data and online
communications like e-mail private."
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Those of us who have been following the Bernstein case will recall
that the government successfully requested a delay in the appeal to
the full 9th Circuit (to mid-March as I recall) as the new regulations
would affect the appeal process.
Martin Minow
minow@pobox.com
