Stewart Baker on Bernstein encryption decision (fwd)

[Declan McCullagh]

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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: fight-censorship-announce at vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Stewart Baker on Bernstein encryption decision



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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 97 11:51:37 EST
From: Stewart Baker <sbaker at mail.steptoe.com>
To: fight-censorship-announce at vorlon.mit.edu, declan at well.com
Subject: Re: FC: John Gilmore to cypherpunks on Bernstein decision

     
Declan--

John is entitled to brag about the Bernstein decision, but getting the 
Department of State to "RWA" all of its pending license applications is nothing 
to brag about.  It cost a lot of companies a lot of money, time, and sales while
they resubmitted the same applications to the Commerce Department.  

I said at the time that State's advice to crypto exporters in those last few 
weeks was "Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye."  

Perhaps the cause of this action was the lawsuit, perhaps it was spite at the 
crypto exporters who lobbied for a change in jurisdiction, but whatever the 
cause, it was not a good thing for anybody who is actually in the crypto 
business.

Stewart

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Subject: FC: John Gilmore to cypherpunks on Bernstein decision
Author:  declan at well.com at INTERNET
Date:    8/26/97 10:38 AM