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Re: (Fwd) New crypto bill clears committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geeman@best.com)
Fri Jun 20 13:27:53 1997
From: geeman@best.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:39:53 -0700
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, trei@process.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
you'd better be able to show a bad-for-business case.
At 07:56 AM 6/20/97 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
>I plan to spend a substaintial portion of my day explaining to the
>large companies I consult with that this is a very bad thing, and they
>should be opposing its advance.
>
>I intend to take the 11 cryptographers paper as my primary tack, and
>am wondering if anyone has any other good "upper management" type
>arguments that I should use.
>
>Adam
>
>
>Peter Trei wrote:
>
>| New crypto bill clears committee
>| By Alex Lash
>| June 19, 1997, 11 a.m. PT
>|
>| just in Just two days after it was introduced, a bill that seeks
>| to impose restrictions on the domestic use of encryption sailed
>| without hearings through the Senate Commerce Committee.
>
>
