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Re: Upcoming House hearings on Goodlatte bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shabbir J. Safdar)
Sat Mar 15 17:37:59 1997
In-Reply-To: <199703140355.TAA22348@servo.qualcomm.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:00:41 -0700
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@vtw.org>
At 7:55 PM -0800 3/13/97, Phil Karn wrote:
>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.
It's interesting to note that Rep. Goodlatte has a copy of the Second
Edition, Blaze and I handed it to him last year. I was just down there
early this week and he's still got it on his bookshelf in his office.
-S
