New crypto regulations

[Mike McNally]

solman at MIT.EDU wrote:
> 
> The government's claim is that in the interests of national security,
> export of cryptography must be prevented. By limiting the policy's
> applicability to media which are in, or can easily be converted to,
> electronic form ...

Does anybody seriously believe that nbody writing these policies has
an understanding of OCR software?  An on-line form of code printed
in a book is just a quick trip to a scanner away.  They know that.

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Mike McNally -- Egregiously Pointy -- Tivoli Systems, "IBM" -- Austin
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