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Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
I haven't had time to confirm this yet, but I thought everyone here would
want to see it ASAP. I'll get back to the list with confirmation.
Shari
>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 15:06:09 -0400
>From: Christopher Davis <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [alt.security.pgp] Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
>X-Attribution: ckd
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>Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto,alt.security.pgp,comp.org.eff
>From: [email protected] (Dave Griffith)
>Subject: Possible Change In Crypto Export Controls
>Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic & Public Computing
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 20:26:43 GMT
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>
>What I know:
> Yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown presented to Congress a report on
>
>export policy, including proposals for legislation. Included in this was a
>proposal for updating the Export Control Act to allow export of many items
>currently restricted for out-dated security purposes. The Commerce Department
>
>estimates that $40 billion per year in sales are lost to such restrictions.
> Attempting to get a copy of this report lead me into a bureaucratic maze,
>eating up an unknown amount of telephone charges and producing no results.
>
>What I want to know:
> Is crypto on the suggested list of changes? If not, whose office should we
>call to get it on such a list?
>
>In any case, it seemed like something the EFF would want to know about, hence
>the crossposting.
>
>- --
>Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago,
>Biological Sciences Division [email protected]
>Will build secret weapon for food.
>
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