[118219] in Cypherpunks
Re: No liberalization for source code, API's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Sep 22 05:21:30 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:02:55 -0700
To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, gnu@toad.com
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 11:41 PM 09/20/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>I will be on stage at a minor league debating forum with Bill Reinsch
>on Thursday of this week.
>If you had one question you would want asked, what would it be?
The one I wouldn't ask, though other people have, is
"Look, you know you've lost, when will you admit it and go home?" :-)
- What criteria does the NSA have for a technical review,
now that we're allowed to export full-strength crypto?
- Since your new proposals allow export of
full-strength functional encryption programs,
and the government's primary arguments for prior restraint
on export of crypto source code has been that source code is
functional rather than just pure speech,
why don't you take care of the Constitutional problems by
allowing export of source code and mathematical algorithms?
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
