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Senator John McCain ends support of key escrow

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Apr 2 10:06:59 1999

To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:05:51 -0500


Senator John McCain ends support of key escrow, joins Senators Burns,
Leahy and Wyden in sponsoring liberalization legislation. This could
be a major reversal for the anti-crypto forces -- Senator McCain was a 
big obstacle to crypto export deregulation in the past.

NY Times URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/02encrypt.html

Remember you can use "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" as a login and password 
on the NY Times site.

If anyone knows of a non-restricted URL with details on this, please
post it.

Perry

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