At least they've got the good cop, bad cop routine down. Check out <http://allpolitics.com/1997/09/09/ap/gore.encryption/>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Al Gore Tuesday reaffirmed the Clinton Administration's policy against restricting the sale in the United States of high-tech devices that maintain the privacy of computer messages.

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But White House aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the vice president's brief comment on the administration's policy was intended to respond to Freeh and show that for now the administration is not changing its position on the sale of encryption devices in the United States.

"For now". Myself, I prefer California SJR 29: <http://www.sen.ca.gov/htbin/ca-billpage/SJR/29/gopher_root2:[bill.current.sjr.f rom0000.sjr0029]> (which accomplishes nothing except feeling good, I know) -- Marshall Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "In Washington DC, officials from the White House, federal agencies and Congress say regulations may be necessary to promote a free-market system." -- CommunicationsWeek International April 21, 1997