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Reno reports "suspicion" in industry crypto-negotiations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri May 1 17:33:03 1998
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:36:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject: Reno reports "suspicion" in industry crypto-negotiations
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time.com / The Netly News
May 1, 1998
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Janet Reno has an undeniable gift for understatement. When asked
yesterday how close the Justice Department was to closing a deal with
the computer industry on compromise encryption legislation, she said
they've had some "good discussions." Then came the zinger: "I think
and certainly sense in newspaper comments and in some of the comments
that I receive when I have the chance to sit down with industry that
there is suspicion."
Suspicion? Try animus, loathing and enmity. Even Commerce
Secretary William Daley recently admitted that crypto-export regs
supported by the Justice Department will result in "foreign dominance
of this market," not to mention costing U.S. firms millions. But this
long-standing tension hasn't stopped groups like Americans for
Computer Privacy from sitting down for talks that are scheduled to
last another month. Mind you, we're not too keen on the whole idea of
feds and lobbyists deciding behind closed doors how much privacy
Americans will enjoy -- but nobody else seems to have been invited.
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