I believe (as I am sure most here do) that crypto of any strength will become illegal, and that anyone sending a message in Pig Latin will soon be shot on sight by FBI the "protecting" our rights... Any control on encyrption, domestic or exportable, is unacceptable in today's high computing power society... Mandatory key escrow, well, you thought the IRS was corrupt... "Have you cracked RC5 today?" M. -----Original Message----- From: Declan McCullagh [SMTP:declan@well.com] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 1997 10:29 AM To: Lucky Green Cc: Michael Brock; cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Oxley Amendment Lucky has it right. SAFE is extremely unlikely to go to the floor without additional "compromise." Then there's the "compromise" with whatever bill the Senate coughs up. Remember that pro-crypto legislation is dead there; only McCain-Kerrey got out of committee. Also remember the Senate is more conservative... Then there's the reality that no pro-crypto legislation would get past a presidential veto... -Declan At 07:16 -0700 9/25/97, Lucky Green wrote:

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I wonder if Mr. Solomon of NY will rethink his decision to not bring up SAFE without Oxley to the entire House after the unprecedented coaltion of companies and individual groups that came together to make sure that mandatory key recovery stays a "1984" like dream. I find it incomprehensible that one man, would block the introduction of this bill, after it being proved that this is what his constituents want....

What in the world makes you believe that Mr. Solomon's constituents would want SAFE to go the the floor? SAFE *must* be defeated, with or without the Oxley ammendment.

-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"