[4316] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: new bill getting through congress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shabbir J. Safdar)
Thu Mar 11 18:15:49 1999
In-Reply-To: <19990311222709.A362741F16@SIGABA.research.att.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:57:07 -0400
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, perry@piermont.com
From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@mindshare.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
The complete audio/video/written archives of that hearing are at
http://www.computerprivacy.org/archive/03041999/
The Deputy Director of the NSA (Barbara McNamara) testified; you can watch
the tape.
-Shabbir
At 5:27 PM -0500 3/11/99, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>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.
