From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 04:14:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: House Intelligence Committee Press Release
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>* Requires that encryption products manufactured and distributed for sale
>or use, or import for sale or use, in the United States after January 31,
>2000 include features or functions that provide, upon presentment of a
>court order, immediate access to plaintext data or decryption information
>from the encryption provider;

Cute trick.  I wonder who's the "provider" of a GNU-licensed piece of 
collectively-written software?

And is the law satisfied by a program which ships with a GAK module and has a 
nice installation program that automatically (or after asking) rips it out by 
the roots.

DCF

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