At 04:18 PM 12/24/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
Many people will believe it. Its easy to construct the case that the ITARs, as they apply to things in the public domain, thing implemented outside the US, things designed outside the US, are just silly. Its much harder to make that argument about Skipjack, especially as you can't legally export the chips.
When Clipper was first proposed, in April of 1993, as I recall one of the government-types promoting it claimed that it would be exportable "except to terrorist-sponsoring countries like Libya." This made me laugh: It seemed to me that if Clipper codes were kept and available to the US government, you'd expect that they'd WANT Libya to get those phones! In fact, they'd air-drop them in the thousands, right? After all, this would make other countries more dependant on the US for cooperation, and they'd be more pliable as a result, right? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com