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Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C Taylor)
Fri Jun 13 12:06:38 1997
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:24:46 -0300 (ADT)
From: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199706121616.JAA08347@servo.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Phil Karn wrote:
> The really ironic issue of late has been supercomputer exports. We now
> have the spectacle of William Reinsch saying that export restrictions
> on supercomputer *hardware* are unworkable because the technology is
> available all around the world.
>
> This is the very same Commerce official who still says with a straight
> face that export controls on encryption *software* are workable and
> desirable.
Encryption companies doesn't have the same clut in the "Real World" as
companies like Intel and IBM does. Secure Computing, Rainbow Technologies,
PGP Inc are all a far cry from the giants in the hardware business.
> Yet I presume nobody minds that we can ship as many Pentiums as we
> want to China.
Let's see the Intel ASCI Teraflops computer...build with 9,200
Pentium Pro chips @ 200Mhz. Recorded 1.34 trillion operations per second
(teraflops). (from Intel press releases)
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Michael C. Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca> <http://www.mta.ca/~mctaylor/>
Programmer, Computing Services, Mount Allison University, Canada
