At 11:38 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
That's why the encryption outlook in Congress is abysmal. Crypto-advocates have lost, and lost miserably. A month ago, the debate was about export controls. Now the battle is over how strict the //domestic// controls will be. It's sad, really, that so many millions of lobbyist-dollars were not only wasted, but used to advance legislation that has been morphed into a truly awful proposal.
This disaster came about because those with the millions of dollars spent their money on lobbying rather than creating new, strong, crypto software. There is only one way to aid the spread of strong crypto and stand up to GAK: Cypherpunks write code. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/