[67085] in Cypherpunks
Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Wed Oct 2 14:19:37 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 10:52:56 -0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 04:09 AM 10/2/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Just woke up -- got up early today to head to ACLU Supreme Court
>briefing -- but it strikes me that receiving nonescrowed crypto
>through the mail might be like receiving kiddie porn.
>
>Import restrictions, of course, will come with mandatory domestic key
>escrow.
>-Declan
I don't intend to be over-optimistic, but I think there was a good reason
that even in the Clipper I proposal, it was (at least) _called_ "voluntary."
However much they'd like to make it mandatory, they know that this
wouldn't fly.
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
