From: John Deters <jad@dsddhc.com>
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 13:57:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Conrad_Burns@burns.senate.gov: Open Letter to Internet Community From Senator Burns
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At 08:22 PM 5/2/96 -0400, Perry Metzger forwarded the following to the list:
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>     In the meantime, I need your help in supporting the effort to repeal 
>     cryptography export controls.  You can find out more by visiting my 
>     web page http://www.senate.gov/~burns/.  There you will find a 
>     collection of encryption education resources that my Webmaster has 
>     assembled.  I trust that the entire Internet community, from the 
>     old-timers to those just starting to learn about encryption, will find 
>     this information useful.
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>     Conrad Burns
>     United States Senator

I agree that this could be the single most important piece of legislation to
affect the cypherpunks ever -- firmly defining the legal status of
encryption (and in our favor, no less!)  However, did anyone actually read
it (it's at
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/pro_CODE_bill.html )?  Here's a nice bit of section 2:

]SEC.2.FINDING;PURPOSE
]
]   (a) FINDINGS. - The Congress finds the following:
]          
]           (1) The ability to digitize information makes
]        carrying out tremendous amounts of commerce and 
]        personal communication electronically possible.
]           (2) Miniaturization, disturbed computing, and
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
]        reduced transmission costs make communication via
]        electronic networks a reality.

I think "disturbed computing" pretty much sums up this list, if not the
entire net!  :-)

-j
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