At 11:24 AM 3/11/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote:

At the same time am pragmatic enough to accept the idea that it will have no effect unless it passes and to be passed today it must have something like the criminalization statement.

I am glad to hear that the bill can be easily stopped. I think we should do something to kill it right away. The only good thing the bill does is give big companies the same power that most of us now possess -- the power to export crypto and get away with it. A good thing, a very good thing, but small change compared to the important individual liberties that the bill lightly discards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com