[1002] in Cypherpunks
a "great" NSA revelation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Wed Jun 9 10:17:24 1993
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 06:54:20 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: ""L. Detweiler""'s message of Tue, 08 Jun 93 22:22:27 -0600 <9306090424.AA02488@longs.lance.colostate.edu>
>>This single
>>quotation will be enormously useful in getting the legislature to take
>>specific and bill-oriented action about the wiretap chips.
>You seem to favor a legislative approach to protecting cryptography.
>[...] In my opinion a 200 year old scrap of paper is all the
>verbiage we need.
Protecting cryptography must be fought on all fronts. If we disregard
the legislature, we will lose. Period.
The Constitution is the highest law of the land. As you may recall,
it was ratified by state legislatures.
Eric
