Subject: LAST CALL: Crypto export bill - one day left to make or break! *DISTRIBUTE WIDELY AND QUICKLY* ONE DAY DEADLINE! The House Intelligence Committee will probably make their decision on the vital issue of cryptography export tomorrow afternoon, Wed. June 15, 1994. If you've not had your say on whether the State Dept. & NSA will be allowed to continue to restrict the flow of public cryptographic products, write, call and fax *today*. Updated fax information for the entire Intelligence Cmte. is below, as is a sample letter, and background information on this important legislative action. If you don't get through on your first fax attempt, keep trying. All of these numbers have been tested and are working as of June 14. ******* What You Can Do 1) Fax a short letter TODAY to the chair of the Intelligence Committee, Representative Dan Glickman (D-KS). Ask him in your own words to leave the encryption provisions of H.R. 3937 intact. You may wish to send a copy of this to the committee itself also. Fax number: +1 202 225 5398 Committee fax: +1 202 225 1991 2) If you are unable to fax a letter, send an e-mail message to Rep. Glickman at glickman@eff.org. We'll deliver it for you, provide it arrives before noon, at which point all such messages must be delivered. 3) Personally urge everyone you know to send a similar fax to Rep. Glickman TODAY, especially if they are among Glickman's Kansas constituents. 4) If your own Representative is on the Intelligence Committee, send him or her a copy of what you sent Rep. Glickman. ******* Phone and Fax Numbers House Intelligence Committee ---------------------------- Subcommittee phone: +1 202 225 4121 Subcommittee fax: +1 202 225 1991 <== send your fax HERE <== p st name phone fax ___________________________________________________________________________ D KS Glickman, Daniel +1 202 225 6216 +1 202 225 5398 Chair D WA Dicks, Norman D. +1 202 225 5916 +1 202 226 1176 D CA Dixon, Julian C. +1 202 225 7084 +1 202 225 4091 D NJ Torricelli, Robert +1 202 224 5061 +1 202 225 0843 D TX Coleman, Ronald D. +1 202 225 4831 +1 202 225 4831 [Coleman's staff manually switch line to fax if they hear fax tones. Preceeding your fax with a voice call might help] D CO Skaggs, David E. +1 202 225 2161 +1 202 225 9127 D NV Bilbray, James H. +1 202 225 5965 +1 202 225 8808 D CA Pelosi, Nancy +1 202 225 4965 +1 202 225 8259 D TX Laughlin, Gregory H. +1 202 225 2831 +1 202 225 1108 D AL Cramer Jr, Robert (Bud) +1 202 225 4801 private D RI Reed, John F. +1 202 225 2735 +1 202 225 9580 D MO Gephardt, Richard A. +1 202 225 2671 +1 202 225 7452 R TX Combest, Larry +1 202 225 4005 +1 202 225 9615 R NE Bereuter, Douglas +1 202 225 4806 +1 202 226 1148 R CA Dornan, Robert K. +1 202 225 2965 private [Dornan's public fax disconnected; office refuses to divulge a fax number] R FL Young, C. W. (Bill) +1 202 225 5961 +1 202 225 9764 R PA Gekas, George W. +1 202 225 4315 +1 202 225 8440 R UT Hansen, James V. +1 202 225 0453 +1 202 225 5857 R CA Lewis, Jerry +1 202 225 5861 +1 202 225 6498 R IL Michel, Robert H. +1 202 225 6201 +1 202 225 9461 ****** Sample Fax FAX to: 202-225-1991 and 202-225-5398 Representative Daniel Glickman Chair House Intelligence Committee U.S House of Representatives Dear Representative Glickman: I realize that tomorrow your committee will probably act on the encryption provisions of H.R. 3937, the Export Administration Act of 1994. I urge that you allow them to remain as they were introduced in Rep. Cantwell's H.R. 3627, and subsequently incorporated into H.R. 3937. Privacy is the basis for my concern, and I support the ability to use secure encryption. Additionally, prohibiting the export of secure cryptography from the United States puts the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage internationally, for who would choose to use crypography known to be insecure (such as the "Clipper Chip", or products intentionally weakened to pass excessively stringent export restrictions)? Please, support privacy and security by preserving the cryptography export language of H.R. 3937. <signed> ****** More Information Detailed background information on this alert: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/export.alert gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts, export.alert http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/export.alert.html BBS (+1 202 638 6119, 6120; 8N1): "Alerts" file area, export.alt The actual text of this part of H.R. 3937 is at: ftp: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/hr3937_crypto.excerpt gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export, hr3937_crypto.excerpt http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/hr3937_crypto.excerpt BBS: "Privacy--Crypto" file area, hr3937.crp For current status on the bill: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/export_alert.update gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts, export_alert.update http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/export_alert.update BBS: "Alerts" file area, export.upd A general Web page on crypto export policy is at: http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/export.html -- Sunnyvale City Councilmember and Employee of Network Computing Devices.