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1996-12-30 - Re: New crypto regulations

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From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
To: solman@MIT.EDU
Message Hash: 67878151a90daad8e4d0f46ecafda19cce9b52cb962ce57d3e05da25ce9f4a7d
Message ID: <32C7B497.8C2@tivoli.com>
Reply To: <9612300237.AA17923@ua.MIT.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1996-12-30 12:25:22 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:25:22 -0800 (PST)

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From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:25:22 -0800 (PST)
To: solman@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: New crypto regulations
In-Reply-To: <9612300237.AA17923@ua.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <32C7B497.8C2@tivoli.com>
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solman@MIT.EDU wrote:
> 
> The government's claim is that in the interests of national security,
> export of cryptography must be prevented. By limiting the policy's
> applicability to media which are in, or can easily be converted to,
> electronic form ...

Does anybody seriously believe that nbody writing these policies has
an understanding of OCR software?  An on-line form of code printed
in a book is just a quick trip to a scanner away.  They know that.

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