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Re: Exporting cryptographic materials, theory vs. practice



On Mon, 2 Jan 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> Doesn't Matt's experience really show simply that not enough people try
> to follow the rules, [...] 
>
> [...]
> 
> I could see a system where you routinely fill out and have your card
> stamped when you check your luggage to show that you are carrying crypto.
> Then you turn it in when you come back.  [...]  How does this
> advance the CP cause?

Exactly so.  Surely we are better off with a system that does not
work.

Furthermore, with the current system, entropy works in our favor.

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