[4330] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: new bill getting through congress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Bell)
Fri Mar 12 17:35:12 1999
To: CR <cryptography@c2.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "12 Mar 1999 19:48:48 GMT."
<19990312194848.1903.qmail@desk.crynwr.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:04:02 +0000
From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>
In message <19990312194848.1903.qmail@desk.crynwr.com>, Russell Nelson writes:
>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.
But will the review requrement allow them to have a chilling
effect by prosecuting a few people for putting unreviewed code on
their websites?
Derek
