From JYA's copy ("Purpose and Background" section, about 8 paragraphs down):
(3) It would direct the Secretary of Commerce to allow the export or re-export of encryption-capable software for non-military end-uses in any country, or computers using such software based on considerations of foreign availability. Importantly, the committee notes that section 3 of H.R. 695 would require the government to approve exports of high performance computers (so-called ``supercomputers'') if those computers contain encryption products or software that are commercially available. In the committee's view, this is one of the most serious consequences and flaws of the bill. Under this proposed arrangement, any company would be in a position to force the government to allow the export of even the most powerful supercomputer available in the United States, if they first loaded a piece of foreign-available encryption software on the supercomputer. As confirmed by Secretary Reinsch in his testimony before the committee, this provision would overturn the Spence-Dellums amendment to H.R. 1119, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, adopted by the House on June 19, 1997, by a vote of 332-88. That amendment would prevent the inadvertent export of supercomputers to questionable end users in countries of proliferation concern. Are we getting screwed by a false link to supercomputers? Ern