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Re: Export policy change

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Subject: Re: Export policy change
From: Carl Ellison <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:21:14 -0400
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>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 23:03:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [email protected]
>Subject: Export policy change

>I think this is an important and somewhat subtle political move on
>the part of the administration.  If they can get at least a few
>large businesses (the ones who buy into the key-escrow scheme) on
>their side, by making it in their economic interests for everyone
>to use escrowed crypto, they will have manufactured some
>potentially powerful allies in the computer industry.  

That's not too far from Steve Walker's published intention with the CKE
project.

See:  ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/crypto/drc/papers/  and below.

 - Carl

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