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Re: A ban on cryptography?
[email protected] (Timothy C. May) writes:
>Anyone know anything about the status of this bill?
>--begin bill excerpt--
>S.1666
>Department of Commerce Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Passed by the
>Senate)
>SEC. 1042. PROHIBITION ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION
>RELATING TO USE OF CRYPTOGRAPHY FOR A CRIMINAL PURPOSE.
It's bogus. THOMAS (http://thomas.loc.gov) shows S.1666 as a Hatch-sponsored
bill introduced 04/15/96: A bill to authorize the Federal district court
for the Central Division of Utah to hold court in Provo and St. George.
Jim Gillogly
20 Wedmath S.R. 1996, 20:59