[65278] in Cypherpunks
Re: What is best policy paper on crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Sep 12 08:00:53 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: declan@eff.org (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:42:34 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960911201759.26035J-100000@eff.org> from "Declan McCullagh" at Sep 11, 96 08:20:08 pm
Declan McCullagh wrote:
| I happen to know that an influential Congresspern will be meeting with
| some Cato folks tomorrow morning, so I'm assuming this isn't an idle
| request.
|
| -Declan
The NAS report, despite a few silly points, does push for
liberalization of the export regime, standardization, a switch to
an 'assume export' stance, states that the debate can be carried out
in public, and that classified information is not needed, and suggests
that crypto can help reduce many threats to Americans.
It does not suggest abolishing the ITARs, and suggests
consideration of a law criminalizing the criminal use of crypto.
It is a balanced report, and has NSA, and attorney generals on
it. Otherwise, I'd go with some of Whit's testimony before Congress.
(Saw a presentation by Herb Lin yesterday at MIT.)
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
