From: ssteele@eff.org (Shari Steele)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 93 12:25:16 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
Message-ID: <199310061921.AA09591@eff.org>
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I haven't had time to confirm this yet, but I thought everyone here would
want to see it ASAP.  I'll get back to the list with confirmation.
Shari

>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 15:06:09 -0400
>From: Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
>To: editors@eff.org
>Subject: [alt.security.pgp] Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
>X-Attribution: ckd
>
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>Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.security.pgp,comp.org.eff
>From: dave@blackjoke.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dave Griffith)
>Subject: Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
>Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic & Public Computing
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 20:26:43 GMT
>
>
>What I know:
>  Yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown presented to Congress a report on
> 
>export policy, including proposals for legislation.  Included in this was a  
>proposal for updating the Export Control Act to allow export of many items  
>currently restricted for out-dated security purposes.  The Commerce Department
> 
>estimates that $40 billion per year in sales are lost to such restrictions.  
>  Attempting to get a copy of this report lead me into a bureaucratic maze,  
>eating up an unknown amount of telephone charges and producing no results.
>
>What I want to know:
>  Is crypto on the suggested list of changes?  If not, whose office should we  
>call to get it on such a list?  
>
>In any case, it seemed like something the EFF would want to know about, hence  
>the crossposting.  
>
>- --
>Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago,
>Biological Sciences Division               dave@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu
>Will build secret weapon for food.
>
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