This was one of the worst researched articles on crypto policy I've read in a long time. In fact, it is so full of errors, I can't tell what factual events it is actually attempting to report on. On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, John Young wrote:

Markoff reports today on a plan to tighten crypto exports for non-bank financial companies and reactions from industry trying to loosen them:

http://www.nytimes.com

Mirrored:

http://jya.com/tighten.txt

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