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Upcoming House hearings on Goodlatte bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Fri Mar 14 00:40:28 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:55:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I have been invited to testify in favor of the Goodlatte crypto
deregulation bill (HR 695) next Thursday (3/20/97) in a hearing of the
House Judiciary Committee, subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual
Property. The hearing begins at 9:30 AM Eastern time.
I do not know if C-SPAN is going to cover this event. Based on my
previous experience (I appeared before the Burns committee in the
Senate last summer) I won't know if C-SPAN will be there until that
morning when the cameras either are or aren't there.
In any event, I will (again) hold up my copy of Bruce Schneier's book
Applied Cryptography, along with a floppy disk of the crypto source
code contained in the book, and explain that according to the
government the book is freely exportable while the floppy is not --
despite the content being identical.
Phil
