S 1587 IS 104th CONGRESS 2d Session To affirm the rights of Americans to use and sell encryption products, to establish privacy standards for voluntary escrowed encryption systems, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 5, 1996 Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. BURNS, Mr. DOLE, Mr. PRESSLER, and Mrs. MURRAY) ^^^^^^^^ Interesting that Bob Dole is supporting it! It's certainly not a perfect bill, and will presumably be less perfect by the time it's passed. But it's a nice alternative to Clinton, who was happy to buy in to the previous Administration's anti-crypto efforts.
(I'll presumably be voting for Harry Browne or some other Libertarian, unless I get fed up and vote for Frank Zappa or Hugh Romney; the Democrats can look me up some year if they decide to run a genuine liberal :-) #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 pager 408-787-1281 # "At year's end, however, new government limits on Internet access threatened # to halt the growth of Internet use. [...] Government control of news media # generally continues to depend on self-censorship to regulate political and # social content, but the authorities also consistently penalize those who # exceed the permissable." - US government statement on China...