From: Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:34:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: An Attempt to Hobble SAFE Crypto Bill (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:22:48 -0400
From: Alan Davidson <abd@cdt.org>
To: "--Todd Lappin-->" <telstar@wired.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: An Attempt to Hobble SAFE Crypto Bill

At 11:03 AM -0800 7/25/97, --Todd Lappin--> wrote:
>
>An Attempt to Hobble House Crypto Bill
>
> by Rebecca Vesely
...
> The amendment, by Representative Benjamin Gilman
> (R-New York), who chairs the International Relations
> Committee, would make it unlawful to "manufacture,
> distribute, sell, or import any product within the United
> States that can be used to encrypt communications or
> information if the product does not permit the real-time
> decryption of such encrypted communications or
> information."

The full text of this very frightening amendment is now available on CDT's
Web site at:
	http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/SAFE/index.shtml#970725

It's a chilling glimpse at the Administration's view of a
mandatory-domestic-key-recovery world. This is the first time I've seen
anyone put such a provision through the House Legislative Counsel process.

 	-- Alan


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