From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:15:41 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key  Crypto Bill (fwd)
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At 09:59 PM 6/19/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:17:35 -0400
>From: Jonah Seiger <jseiger@cdt.org>
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, sameer <sameer@c2.net>
>Cc: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
>Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key  Crypto
Bill
[...]
>But before we get all caught up in the old jihad between "the purists" and
>the "pragmatists", just think about this for a moment:  If we are going to
>have a prayer of getting out of this Congress without getting stuck with
>manditory key recovery, we have to at least recognize where we fit in to
>the overall equation and how the system actually works.

Where do people get the bizarre notion that we will get out of the crypto
issue without mandatory key recovery? You may be able to stall it for a
while, but there is no way it can be prevented.




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