Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

Forwarded message:

> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:38:55 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com>
> Subject: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls

> Subject: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:23:54 -0800
> From: John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com>

> The US Wassenaar initiative is an attempt to deny the public not only
> all future strong crypto developments, but all existing ones.  As
> today's message from Denmark makes clear, the freedom-hating
> bureaucrats are threatening to prosecute a citizen merely for
> publishing PGP on his web page.

And this is different from yesterday how?

> Let's at least ensure that they don't eliminate *today's* strong
> crypto, by replicating crypto archives behind each Berlin Wall they
> threaten to erect.

Are you offering to put up your monies to provide any and all legal and
other support for any such site that participates? When is your site going
up?


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