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Re: Edupage Editors: Edupage, 21 May 1998
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sun May 24 15:13:02 1998
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199805230013.RAA23607@mail6.netcom.com>
The people "posturing" include those that want "total freedom to use...".
Note that the IBM spokesperson include "total freedom to use", not just
"total freedom to export" in his description of what he seems to believe
to be the irrational extremists on either side. All IMHO.
--Lucky
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Black Unicorn wrote:
> 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?
>
>
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
