Reuters New Media [ Yahoo | Write Us | Search | Info ] [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Texas Instruments Posts Loss, Stock Soars Next Story: FCC Chief Asks If Policy Should Focus On Internet _________________________________________________________________ Friday January 24 10:08 AM EST US Senator Will Reintroduce Encryption Export Bill WASHINGTON - Sen. Conrad Burns will reintroduce next week his measure to substantially eliminate export restrictions on computer encoding technology, a spokesman for the Senator says. "We are aiming for the 28th (of January) and it will be the same bill as last year," Matt Raymond, spokesman for the Montana Republican, said. President Clinton signed an executive order in November slightly relaxing export controls on encryption technology -- computer programs that use mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software "key." But many in Congress and the computer industry have said the new Clinton policy did not go far enough to lift the Cold War era export limits that classified most encryption programs as munitions. Copyright, Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved _________________________________________________________________ ________________________ ___________ Help _________________________________________________________________ Previous Story: Texas Instruments Posts Loss, Stock Soars Next Story: FCC Chief Asks If Policy Should Focus On Internet _________________________________________________________________ [ Index | News | World | Biz | Tech | Politic | Sport | Scoreboard | Entertain | Health ] _________________________________________________________________ Reuters Limited Questions or Comments