From: "Thomas W. Strong, Jr." <strong+@cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 May 93 17:32:36 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: An editorial comment from comp.risks
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In an article about the absurdity of ITAR legislation, Peter Neuman (the
moderator) added this comment at the bottom.

>    [Incidentally, at last week's IEEE Symposium on Research in Security 
>    and Privacy, a rump group decided that because crypto falls under
>    munitions controls, the right to bear arms must sanction private uses of
>    cryptography!  PGN]

Does anyone here have any more information about this?  Particularly
whether or not it can be backed up?  

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