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Edupage Editors: Edupage, 21 May 1998
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 21 22:31:48 1998
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:22:50 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Forwarded from the 21 May Edupage [excerpted]:
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Edupage, 21 May 1998. Edupage, a summary of news about information
technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a
Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
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[...]
U.S. Encryption Policy Could Cost Companies $9 Billion
[...]
U.S. ENCRYPTION POLICY COULD COST COMPANIES $9 BILLION
A study released recently the Economic Strategy Institute shows that U.S.
makers of encryption software could miss out on $9-billion worth of sales
over the next five years, if the U.S. doesn't revise its export policy.
Although the administration has shown some signs of willingness to relax its
stance against encryption export, companies remain wary. Government
officials "continually play this game of offering some meaningless relief,
promising more and never delivering," says RSA Data Security president Jim
Bidzos. "They're gridlocked. When pressed to make concessions, the NSA and
FBI never find any compromises acceptable." "We need to get a new dialogue
started," says IBM's public policy director. "As long as there is posturing
by law enforcement on one hand and people advocating total freedom to use
and export strong encryption on the other, you're going to end up in this
area of paralysis." (Investor's Business Daily 21 May 98)
[...]
