From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:15:56 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Strong" crypto and export rule changes.
In-Reply-To: <199611161733.MAA04178@homeport.org>
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Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:
>         What the US government will allow to be exported is not "strong
> encryption."  It is encryption only slightly too strong to be broken
> by an amateur effort.  For the right investment in custom hardware, it
> falls quickly.  (500,000 $US = 3.5 hour avg break).
<snip>
>         In other words, the surveilance state is still winning, and
> American business is still losing.

Umm, I'm not expert, but it seems to me that the proposal removes the
"munitions" classification. It seems the USG has removed its defense
in court chanllenges to export restrictions. Am I totally off-base
here?

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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