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SAFE returns?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jan 15 18:45:19 1999

To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 15 Jan 1999 18:35:59 -0500


Quite a week. India threatens to ban U.S. weakened crypto, France
takes step towards permitting the domestic use of cryptography, and
now SAFE is being re-introduced

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31032,00.html

   Crypto policy back in the spotlight 
   By Courtney Macavinta
   Staff Writer, CNET News.com
   January 15, 1999, 2:15 p.m. PT 

   CUPERTINO, California--Despite an emerging Cold War-like attitude
   toward China's access to sophisticated U.S. technologies, Silicon Valley
   Rep. Zoe Lofgren today said she plans to reintroduce legislation to ease
   export controls on encryption.

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