[13511] in Cypherpunks
Re: State Dept Response to my second CJ request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Wed May 11 21:38:05 1994
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 18:34:36 -0700
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: asherman@i-kinetics.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405112204.AA02647@jacobi.i-kinetics.com> (asherman@jacobi.i-kinetics.com)
>To this the counter argument would run along the lines of:
> "Exactly WHAT encryption algorithms, here, are not known and
> used, worldwide."
>Is this close to the mark? What holes are there in this case (other
>than the fact that THEY get to make the laws)?
Given that they already allowed the exact same information to be
exported in print form, there is the question of whether it is
constitutional to discriminate on the basis of the medium of
expression. In other words, this case comes pretty close to what
groups like EFF were originally created to protect.
Phil
