Re: More on House Intelligence committee amendment on crypto
At 03:38 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
So I'm reading through the 43-page amendment to SAFE that the House Intelligence committee approved today. It includes:
* Ban on sale of crypto without a backdoor. Five year & fine (maybe $250,000?) if violated. Prosecutions can be held in closed-door courtrooms, publishers of info about case to be held in contempt of court.
Does the bill retain the 5 years first offense, 10 years second offense provisions for using crypto in the comission of a crime? Let's see: Lucky sells five copies of PGP. That's 5+(5+4*10)=50 years in prison. Or is it (5*5)+(5+4*10)=70 years? Doesn't make much of a difference at my age, I suppose. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/
The new SAFE bill retains the five-ten provisions. Remember how the crypto in a crime provision was narrowed in (I recall) the Judiciary committee? It's not that narrow anymore; it's been broadened and is much more encompassing. Small surprise. -Declan On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
At 03:38 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
So I'm reading through the 43-page amendment to SAFE that the House Intelligence committee approved today. It includes:
* Ban on sale of crypto without a backdoor. Five year & fine (maybe $250,000?) if violated. Prosecutions can be held in closed-door courtrooms, publishers of info about case to be held in contempt of court.
Does the bill retain the 5 years first offense, 10 years second offense provisions for using crypto in the comission of a crime?
Let's see: Lucky sells five copies of PGP. That's 5+(5+4*10)=50 years in prison. Or is it (5*5)+(5+4*10)=70 years? Doesn't make much of a difference at my age, I suppose.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/
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