Excerpted from a message to fight-censorship. For the full thread, check out: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?thread =The+Leahy+Crypto+Bill+is+Rancid+Sausage&after=1795&type=short (On one line, of course.) -Declan ---------- Forwarded message begins here ---------- From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> Message-Id: <199603190315.TAA05777@eff.org> To: declan+@CMU.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:15:09 -0800 (PST) Cc: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu, junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu, tcmay@got.net [...] As our statement on the bill made clear, *EFF does not support the Leahy bill*, nor do we endorse it, like it, find it useful or any other synonym. We're happy to see the issues raise again, a la Cantwell, but we specifically recommended simple and complete deregulation. As our co-founder John Gilmore points out, the Leahy bill as written pre-supposes Congressional authority to legislate in this are, and Executive authority to regulate under that legislation. These are notions that we, and Phil Karn, are challenging in court with Constitutional tests we are throwing at the ITAR export regs. [...]