Jeremiah A Blatz wrote: | Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes: | > What the US government will allow to be exported is not "strong | > encryption." It is encryption only slightly too strong to be broken | > by an amateur effort. For the right investment in custom hardware, it | > falls quickly. (500,000 $US = 3.5 hour avg break). | <snip> | > In other words, the surveilance state is still winning, and | > American business is still losing. | | Umm, I'm not expert, but it seems to me that the proposal removes the | "munitions" classification. It seems the USG has removed its defense | in court chanllenges to export restrictions. Am I totally off-base | here? No, but they were going to lose in court anyway. They're losing in the marketplace, and they throw us a bone. We don't want bones, we want a full lifting of the restrictions. We want to stop wasting time on these silly fights, and start selling things on the net. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume