[2746] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Edupage Editors: Edupage, 21 May 1998
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Sun May 24 13:53:26 1998
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 19:12:44 -0500
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980521194621.00966140@netcom10.netcom.com>
At 09:46 PM 5/21/98 , Lucky Green wrote:
>At 22:22 98/05/21 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>>"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)
>
>The problem is exacerbated by policy directors that fail to understand that
>there is no middle ground in the crypto debate. Either third parties can
>read your traffic or they can't.
>
>But what is really interesting about this quote is that this is the first
>time that a company the size of IBM has basically come out in favor of
>restricting domestic use of cryptography.
I don't see this. Am I missing something?
