old encryption paper

[Declan McCullagh]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:33:37PM -0400, proclus at gnu-darwin.org wrote:
> IMHO, it is exactly this kind of commentary which scuttled an attack
> on free encryption software in the wake of the attack.  Moreover, the
> monolith authentication schemes were also laid to rest or driven

Well, no. This kind of commentary made folks on mailing lists like
these feel warm and fuzzy and made some other tech types realize what
was at stake. But Sen. Judd Gregg's proposal failed because of lack of
support from his colleagues and opposition from well-connected
industry lobbyists, not people writing about "GNU-Darwin" (probably
not one congresscritter knows what that means anyway, or cares).

-Declan