-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com> writes:
In <1.5.4.32.19970327120223.006d3e30@pop.pipeline.com>, on 03/27/97 at 07:02 AM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said:
That seeming contradiction, however, did not prevent the Clinton Administration in recent months from waging a vigorous behind-the-scenes effort for its proposal. And hoping to resolve some of the policy conflicts, the Administration is now circulating draft legislation on Capitol Hill which would attempt to control even the domestic use of data-scrambling software and establish a key-escrow system for the United States.
Is this in reference to the various GAK initiatives by the administration or are they finally pushing for forced restrictions on domestic crypto? Has anyone seen these drafts?
I haven't seen the drafts, but the url that someone recently posted (the ones with the commas in it) has an article about it. The article is pretty down on the whole GAK thing, and points out a couple times that the proposed bill pushes hard for de facto manditory GAK, despite the gov't's past claims that it wouldn't do that. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMztItckz/YzIV3P5AQEd1wL/Tr9jF0HoKUwujRpXQY4E0ANH9Lmt2Xzx OSw2mjyK965r6ul0+OKH6ArKeqNKgV2XgCk2iHC8P4hqx5DFbCVhXMzhNtVrIPl8 509bfqxBSV4nDkitUMb+y6hpA8+RvFGQ =ulDt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----