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Re: new bill getting through congress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Mar 12 17:29:40 1999
Date: 12 Mar 1999 19:48:48 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <7cbne1$14e$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
Ian Goldberg writes:
> 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...
Right, but the law greatly increases the workload of the regulators.
Most crypto code will be legal to export, as opposed to now, where
most of it is not. The review requirement is a bone thrown to the
security community, so they can't say that the bill requires them to
roll over and play dead. The real-world effect of the bill will have
them on their back, feet up.
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