From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:37:46 PST
To: "LYLE, DAVID R. COMPEX" <lyled@pentagon-emh9.army.mil>
Subject: RE: Clipper Death Threat
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On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, LYLE, DAVID R. COMPEX wrote:

>. . . 
> 
>  -->3.  Why we have a right to strong encryption. 
> 
> Actually, our constitution does not say we have the right to private 
> communication.  It would be nice, but it's not a right. 
> 

Try the 9th Amendment on for size:

"The enumeration in the Costitution, of certain rights, shall not be 
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Privacy was a long recognized right in Anglo-American juris prudence.  It 
goes all the way back to the very English idea that "a man's home is his 
castle."


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