From: IN%"jimbell@pacifier.com" "jim bell" 9-MAR-1996 21:27:52.24
Further, any organization with even a shred of credibility that does not condition its support for this bill on the complete removal of this section is doing the rest of us an extreme disservice: It is trading on and risking its reputation, because many of them are issuing opinions of this section of the bill with assurances that it will only be used against "guilty" people, when there is simply no way to know if this is going to be true.
Either complete removal _or_ replacement with something clearly stating the preferable interpretation (only for cryptography knowingly used by a person committing a felony to conceal the commission of that felony). The latter, while not as good as the former (why should there be additional charges for using cryptography for concealment of a felony?), is acceptable with the other portions of the bill counterweighing it. -Allen