At 04:09 PM 5/18/96 -0400, Will Rodger wrote:

The White House is about to answer recent attempts to liberalize encryption exports with a proposal of its own.

Documents obtained by Interactive Week show the Ciinton Administration has been lobbying key Republican committee members to compromise on encryption through a policy that looks very much like previous commerical key escrow efforts.

Typical boneheaded government! At it yet again, I see. I'd feel inclined to say something like "I predict that they will fail" but that might be misinterpreted. This most recent outrage wouldn't even be compatible with the Leahy bill, bad as it was. Even so, I was pleased to see that we had already managed to educate a number of people in Congress who already know that this plan is DOA. That's progress, I guess. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com