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Re: Pro-CODE Crypto Bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Mon Mar 3 11:02:50 1997
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:03:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970302111625.0314f5c0@mail.teleport.com>
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Alan Olsen wrote:
>
> There is an interesting addition to the bill that I have not seen discussed
> here yet. The pro-code bill has added an "Information Security Board". This
> provision worries me. It sound like a nice little rubber hose committee.
> ("The House Committee on Unamerican Encryption"?)
>
> Any opinions on this new development?
That may well be what it it really is, but to me it seems more like an
information dissemination organisation (they don't seem to be given any
special powers. Some of it sounds like it's treading on NCSC turf, but I
expect the board will be staffed from there, so that shouldn't cause to
many problems.
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