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Re: new bill getting through congress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Fri Mar 12 14:41:21 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 12 Mar 1999 18:46:25 GMT
In article <199903120652.HAA17438@mail.replay.com>,
Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately the bill doesn't go far
>> enough, in that individuals are left out in the cold: it's essentially
>> for the Microsofts and Netscapes of the industry to be exportable.
>
>Everyone always says this, but no one ever says why.
>
>Let's keep in mind that we're talking about software. The question
>is, does the bill give more protection to software written by large
>corporations like Netscape and Microsoft than it does to software written
>by individuals?
Note that the bill _still_ requires a review before you're allowed to
export crypto. That means J. Random Cypherpunk can't just write code
and stick it on his website...
- Ian
