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Americans for Computer Privacy ready new crypto-bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Apr 21 17:09:07 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
[Here's the first paragraph from the Netly News story. For the rest, go to
netlynews.com or the URL below. --Declan]
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http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1912,00.html
The Netly News / Afternoon Line
April 17, 1998
Picking the Deadlock
An alliance of high-tech firms is readying new encryption legislation
they hope will end their long-standing deadlock with the FBI in
Congress. A recent working draft of the "E-PRIVACY" act prepared by
Americans for Computer Privacy and obtained by The Netly News
substantially relaxes restrictions on overseas shipments of encryption
products, bars state and federal governments from trying to "require
or compel" key recovery or key escrow, and says technology such as
digital signatures used only for authentication is not regulated and
may be exported freely.
[...]
