From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:15:08 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mirror of new export control regulations
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At 9:10 PM -0500 11/15/96, Alan Davidson wrote:
>>http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/nov96-regs.htm
>
>
>It gets even more interesting.  In addition to signing today's Executive
>Order on encryption, the President also designated Ambassador David L.
>Aaron as the new "Special Envoy for Cryptography."  (Really, I'm not making
>this up.)

Could this be the same David Aaron who writes thriller novels about nuclear
terrorism?


(I don't know that it is, by the way, nor am I making a joke. A David
Aaron, with also diplomatic ties, wrote at least one fine thriller some
years back. If he's the crypto czar, he can probably spin an appropriately
scary story to tell the recalcitrant Third Worlders he'll be dealing
with...countries like France, Britain, etc.)

--Tim May


"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
[NYT, 1996-10-02]
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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