[44613] in Cypherpunks
RE: Do the Right Thing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin)
Sun Dec 3 22:19:34 1995
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 22:15:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: pfarrell@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ace76787260210043e19@[205.199.118.202]>
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
[....]
> Is it too early to worry about outlawing of non-GAKked crypto? Hal Abelson
> has this in the preliminary program for CFP '96, sent out today:
>
> "Events planned for this year's conference include:
>
> - Federalprosecutors square off against civil-liberties lawyers
> in a Supreme Court test of the "Cryptography Control Act of
> 1996", which criminalizes non-escrowed encryption."
[.....]
Tim knows this, but before some other careless reader sets off a panic, I
want to make it clear to that this is a MOOT court, in which
participants will PRETEND to test the validity of a HYPOTHETICAL act.
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