At 08:22 PM 5/2/96 -0400, Perry Metzger forwarded the following to the list: [deleted]

In the meantime, I need your help in supporting the effort to repeal cryptography export controls. You can find out more by visiting my web page http://www.senate.gov/~burns/. There you will find a collection of encryption education resources that my Webmaster has assembled. I trust that the entire Internet community, from the old-timers to those just starting to learn about encryption, will find this information useful.

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Conrad Burns United States Senator

I agree that this could be the single most important piece of legislation to affect the cypherpunks ever -- firmly defining the legal status of encryption (and in our favor, no less!) However, did anyone actually read it (it's at http://www.cdt.org/crypto/pro_CODE_bill.html )? Here's a nice bit of section 2: ]SEC.2.FINDING;PURPOSE ] ] (a) FINDINGS. - The Congress finds the following: ] ] (1) The ability to digitize information makes ] carrying out tremendous amounts of commerce and ] personal communication electronically possible. ] (2) Miniaturization, disturbed computing, and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ] reduced transmission costs make communication via ] electronic networks a reality. I think "disturbed computing" pretty much sums up this list, if not the entire net! :-) -j -- J. Deters

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