From: David Rosoff <drosoff@ARC.unm.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 04:38:03 +0800
To: Scott Schryvers <hua@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: Kids and Computer Privacy Was  Re: No more stupid gun thread  ...
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At 03.48 AM 7/24/96 -0500, Scott Schryvers wrote:

>Should kids have crypto? [weapons]

Your analogy fails when I consider the simple point that crypto is not
a weapon in and of itself, no matter what the misguided ITAR says.
"... two plus two make five ..."

>Under Itar crypto is a weapon.  If a kid were to bring a disk
>containing pgp to school could they be expelled for carrying a weapon?

No, because crypto, *by itself* does NOT present a threat to any other
kid or to any teacher or to the kid carrying the code.

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