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Re: US to Ease Crypto Export
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Wed Jul 8 13:37:37 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:49:45 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com, cryptography@c2.net
John Young quoted Washington Post:
> Commerce Secretary William Daley plans to announce today
> that the government will give U.S. software companies new
> freedom to export their most sophisticated data-scrambling
> technology to financial institutions chartered in 45 countries,
> according to Clinton administration sources.
Everything in commerce is subject to certain general laws. If foreign
countries produce cheaper, then there is under circumstances even
a need of subvention of export to support survival of native
manufacturers. Cryptology can be much less monopolyzed by a nation
than nuclear science.
M. K. Shen
