I haven't had time to confirm this yet, but I thought everyone here would want to see it ASAP. I'll get back to the list with confirmation. Shari

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 15:06:09 -0400 From: Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com> To: editors@eff.org Subject: [alt.security.pgp] Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls X-Attribution: ckd

------- Start of forwarded message ------- Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.security.pgp,comp.org.eff From: dave@blackjoke.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dave Griffith) Subject: Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic & Public Computing Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 20:26:43 GMT

What I know: Yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown presented to Congress a report on

export policy, including proposals for legislation. Included in this was a proposal for updating the Export Control Act to allow export of many items currently restricted for out-dated security purposes. The Commerce Department

estimates that $40 billion per year in sales are lost to such restrictions. Attempting to get a copy of this report lead me into a bureaucratic maze, eating up an unknown amount of telephone charges and producing no results.

What I want to know: Is crypto on the suggested list of changes? If not, whose office should we call to get it on such a list?

In any case, it seemed like something the EFF would want to know about, hence the crossposting.

- -- Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division dave@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu Will build secret weapon for food.

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