From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 07:07:40 +0800
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Crypto-update: Magaziner on Clinton, Senate on crypto-czar
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[Reminder: There //is// a DC cypherpunks meeting this Sunday afternoon!
Email me for details if you don't have 'em yet. --Declan]

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:53:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Crypto-update: Magaziner on Clinton, Senate on crypto-czar

Ira Magaziner, Clinton's Net-advisor, spoke today at the District of
Columbia Bar Association, Computer and Telecommunications Law section
conference. A brief report, as told to me by someone who was there:

>Magaziner said Clinton and Gore specifically oppose mandatory
>domestic key recovery. Said they're still fighting it
>out within the administration and hope to work out a
>reasonable compromise. Aligned himself pretty clearly
>with the commercial, not the law enforcement side. Said
>that when Freeh waves around the "four horsemen," he's
>hard-pressed to come up with an informed answer. Said
>NSA had been involved in lobbying on the Hill.

Also, a Senate committee today approved the nomination of David
"Crypto-Ambassador" Aaron to be Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade. Aaron has been for the last year trying to export the
FBI's crypto-proposals for mandatory Big Brother cryptoware. (And
unconfirmed reports say he's been getting into fights not just inside the
OECD in Paris, but outside: apparently he's tussled with Parisian cabbies
more than once...) Aaron's nomination now goes to the full Senate; no vote
has been scheduled yet.

-Declan