-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970826100258.28546F-100000@well.com>, on 08/26/97 at 10:03 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 97 11:51:37 EST From: Stewart Baker <sbaker@mail.steptoe.com> To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu, declan@well.com Subject: Re: FC: John Gilmore to cypherpunks on Bernstein decision
Declan--
John is entitled to brag about the Bernstein decision, but getting the Department of State to "RWA" all of its pending license applications is nothing to brag about. It cost a lot of companies a lot of money, time, and sales while they resubmitted the same applications to the Commerce Department.
I said at the time that State's advice to crypto exporters in those last few weeks was "Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye."
Perhaps the cause of this action was the lawsuit, perhaps it was spite at the crypto exporters who lobbied for a change in jurisdiction, but whatever the cause, it was not a good thing for anybody who is actually in the crypto business.
Stewart
Well I for one hope the Commerce Dept will deny all applications for export. It is time that the computer industry combined forced and let the piggies in DC know that they aren't going to take this shit anymore. I am curious just who overseas they are selling watered down crypto to anyhow. Is this information available via Foia? Perhaps we should start a mailing campagne to these companies of the dangers of using weak crypto and give them pointers to overseas companies that can provide them with strong crypto solutions. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNAMGWo9Co1n+aLhhAQGJNQP/eA/EoWmy6558gU/J3T7JZKNVG21b1Vex +87Qc0Qz0LCq7aKXFMxjdAFPHDmtkipmaJGiK8sIvaOPl5+QY+bU/G7NgEjF0BCx R41sOicz9bnpXKss71LquIVsBMC4QKrNm3xGASHudESCpMITaK+1NQChDNoQYKAE 0RFd90Kfma8= =uAXr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----