Declan McCullagh wrote: | I happen to know that an influential Congresspern will be meeting with | some Cato folks tomorrow morning, so I'm assuming this isn't an idle | request. | | -Declan The NAS report, despite a few silly points, does push for liberalization of the export regime, standardization, a switch to an 'assume export' stance, states that the debate can be carried out in public, and that classified information is not needed, and suggests that crypto can help reduce many threats to Americans. It does not suggest abolishing the ITARs, and suggests consideration of a law criminalizing the criminal use of crypto. It is a balanced report, and has NSA, and attorney generals on it. Otherwise, I'd go with some of Whit's testimony before Congress. (Saw a presentation by Herb Lin yesterday at MIT.) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume