Dole Backs Crypto Export
Adam Shostack
adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Sat May 4 00:24:01 PDT 1996
If Dole proves this isn't Clintonesque pandering by getting the bill
through as Senate Majority Leader, I'll hold my nose and vote for him
for President.
Adam
jya at pipeline.com wrote:
| Financial Times, May 3, 1996, p. 7.
| Dole backs removal of software export ban
| By Louise Kehoe in San Francisco
|
| Senator Bob Dole, the presumptive Republican presidential
| candidate, yesterday threw his support behind proposed
| legislation to remove US export restrictions on computer
| software used to encode Internet messages.
| For Senator Dole, the encryption bill provides an
| opportunity to seek support from Silicon Valley high-tech
| leaders many of whom backed Mr Bill Clinton in 1992, and to
| boost his election campaign efforts in California.
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-Hume
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