From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:53:33 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: HP announcement re encryption (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:27:22 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ross Stapleton-Gray [email was here]
Subject: HP announcement re encryption

>From Reuters... for those in the DC area, it'll be at the National Press
Club at 8am Monday...


PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuter) - Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday that it will
unveil a breakthrough agreement on Monday in the long-deadlocked debate
over software encryption, a development that could eliminate a key
impediment to the growth of electronic commerce via the Internet.

A spokesman said H-P Chairman and Chief Executive Lewis Platt will provide
details of a deal involving computer industry leaders, the Clinton
administation and other governments at a press conference in Washington. 


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