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Re: new bill getting through congress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Mar 11 17:48:21 1999
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:27:04 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
In message <87yal3znb1.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
> Anyone know anything about this?
>
> Thursday March 11 11:15 AM ET
>
> Bill To Relax U.S. Controls On Encryption Advances
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to relax strict U.S. export controls on
> computer data-scrambling products passed a small hurdle Thursday,
> gaining approval from a House Judiciary subcommittee by voice vote.
Let me point folks at thomas.loc.gov. 30 seconds with it shows that the
bill is H.R.850. Hearings were held a week ago by the Subcommittee on
Courts and Intellectual Property; this is presumably the panel that approved
it. It's also been sent to the Committee on International Relations.
