From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:21:34 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: unsafe SAFE:
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At 9:15 PM -0800 5/13/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>I believe Courtney got it wrong. Isn't it Pro-CODE that has the Info Board
>provision? See:
>
>  SEC. 6. INFORMATION SECURITY BOARD.
>
>   (a) INFORMATION SECURITY BOARD TO BE ESTABLISHED- The Secretary shall
>       establish an Information Security Board comprised of
>       representatives of agencies within the Federal Government
>       responsible for or involved in the formulation of information
>       security policy, including export controls on products with
>       information security features (including encryption). The Board
>       shall meet at such times and in such places as the Secretary may
>       prescribe, but not less frequently than quarterly. The Federal
>       Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does not apply to the Board
>       or to meetings held by the Board under subsection (d).

That was what I recollected, vaguely.

I haven't spent near as much time analyzing Pro-CODE as I did a couple of
weeks ago with SAFE. People tell me Pro-CODE is not nearly as bad, but I
remain skeptical. And certainly James Donald is basically right that _any_
provision for a "review board" is a disaster.

Review boards mean bureaucracy, entrenched interests, and a wedge for
denial of licensens.

As to Conrad Burns himself, he seemd jovial and "conservative" at last
summer's Stanford mini-conference. Conservative in the sense I like.

But how will a Montana Republican like him respond when ultra-strong crypto
is used to, say, import child porn undetectably from Denmark, where there
standards of what is child porn differ from those of Montana? This is where
the "Review Board" will get involved, and so on and so forth.

No politician I know of will ever be a friend of crypto anarchy.

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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