---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:27:22 -0500 (EST)

From: Ross Stapleton-Gray [email was here] Subject: HP announcement re encryption

From Reuters... for those in the DC area, it'll be at the National Press Club at 8am Monday...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuter) - Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it will unveil a breakthrough agreement on Monday in the long-deadlocked debate over software encryption, a development that could eliminate a key impediment to the growth of electronic commerce via the Internet. A spokesman said H-P Chairman and Chief Executive Lewis Platt will provide details of a deal involving computer industry leaders, the Clinton administation and other governments at a press conference in Washington. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin@law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.