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Re: moving Crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Fairbrother)
Thu Aug 2 19:43:45 2001
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:43:28 +0100
From: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
To: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Richard Schroeppel <rcs@CS.Arizona.EDU>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Message-ID: <B78F79F8.9CAD%peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
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> Ray Dillinger at bear@sonic.net wrote:
>
> It is time to move the conference because it is no longer safe for
> cryptography researchers to enter the USA.
>
> Bear
I'm worried about the long-term National Security implications. If DMCA
stands and US cryptography researchers are imprisoned en masse, or forbidden
to work, then the best US crypto people will migrate to - Russia? Where they
would be free to do their research?
Non-government cryptography researchers are a strategic asset, vital for
economic reasons, needed to provide a pool of talent/knowledge for NSA/the
Armed Forces, available to be called upon in time of war, etc.etc.
How about moving Crypto to Moscow, or perhaps St Petersberg?
-- Peter
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