From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 01:34:21 +0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Crypto Bill HR 3011
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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, John Young wrote:

> MSNBC reports today that one of the bills coming up
> in the congressional session is "H.R. 3011, an encryption
> bill which favors stripping all export restrictions and 
> opposes any key escrow requirements."
> 
> We've not been able to find this bill in the usual gov sites. 
> Assuming that MSNBC got the info right, pointers to the bill
> would be appreciated.

Yet another example of MSNBC's fine reporting. H.R. 3011 is the bill
number for last year's SAFE bill (which was an improvement over this
year's, BTW):

  ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c104/h3011.ih.txt

This year's SAFE bill is H.R. 695.

-Declan