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Re: Wm Daley Dept of Commerce speech 4/15

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Thu Apr 16 17:56:50 1998

From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:31 EDT

> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:32:41 -0400
> www.doc.gov/ops/ecom.htm
> 
>      We've talked a lot about this for several years.  We can
> talk some more.  But without a commitment on all sides to settle
> for less than 100 percent, we are no closer to resolution than we
> were when we began. 

Well, no.  The government's hand is so weak, as regards USERS of crypto,
that they have no need to compromise, just to import.  Eventually,
whether the gov't recognizes that it has lost will matter only to
domestic vendors.

Barney Wolff  <barney@databus.com>

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