Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
Encryption is vital to the Net BY RICHARD A. GEPHARDT Fearing the availability of encryption abroad could make it more difficult for the U.S. government to intercept the communications of criminals and gather intelligence, the current and past Administrations have chosen to maintain strict export controls on encryption.
The above only makes sense in the case of the U.S. government intercepting the communications of overseas criminals and in gathering foreign intelligence. If encryption is indeed "munitions," then we are effectively scaling back our contribution to the "arms race" without getting a corresponding scaling back from "the enemy," who is proceeding forward in the crypto arms race at a full pace. TruthMonger