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1996-07-20 - Re: Netscape download requirements

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: paquin@netscape.com
Message Hash: 7342ed3e6beeb2ada69c7ac8fe6b30d24df146a4cea1d3b2b1982dfdb3b86852
Message ID: <199607201935.OAA17617@homeport.org>
Reply To: <31EFCCCC.B13@netscape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-20 22:21:47 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 06:21:47 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 06:21:47 +0800
To: paquin@netscape.com
Subject: Re: Netscape download requirements
In-Reply-To: <31EFCCCC.B13@netscape.com>
Message-ID: <199607201935.OAA17617@homeport.org>
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	Don't screw with the system, and I can bet how the policy
review will come out.

	We just had a policy review; the National Academy of Sciences
had a very prestigious group do a review of our Cryptographic Policy.
It suggested liberalization.

	Clearly, someone didn't like that, so the Powers That Be are
doing another policy review in the hopes of getting a review that they
like.  If they don't get something they like, there will be another
policy review, chaired by Loius Freeh, and taking testimony from such
prestigious cryptographers as Dr. Denning.

Adam


Tom Paquin wrote:

| > Exporting crypto-systems and killing people is comparing apples
| > and hand grenades.  Please come up with a relevant analogy.
| 
| You missed the point.  Right now the government is in the midst
| of a policy review.  Your inclination to view that policy as
| irrlevant simply doesn't matter.  Proving to them that a more
| tolerant policy would not be in their interest is not in our
| interest.
| 
| Screw with this system and I can bet how the policy review
| will come out.


-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume

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