From: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 01:27:18 +0800
To: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: unSAFE won't pass?
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Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net> declared:

>It may make for good copy, but I think it's just fantasy to think the
>administration or their opponents, for that matter, will get what
>they want this year. Let them swarm. Who cares.
>
>At earliest, August of 1998 before anything passes - and even that is
>highly optimistic.

Will:

	Could you please explain the logic, numbers, and procedural
limitations of congressional action that lead you to this conclusion?

	Why not now?

	Why not between now and August '98?

	Why the deadline/target-date of August '98?

	Suerte,
		_Vin

"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for
good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by
its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who
deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
_ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm.

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