Re: White House crypto proposal -- too little, too late

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 04:09 AM 10/2/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Just woke up -- got up early today to head to ACLU Supreme Court
>briefing -- but it strikes me that receiving nonescrowed crypto
>through the mail might be like receiving kiddie porn.
>
>Import restrictions, of course, will come with mandatory domestic key
>escrow.
>-Declan

I don't intend to be over-optimistic, but I think there was a good reason 
that even in the Clipper I proposal, it was (at least) _called_ "voluntary." 
 However much they'd like to make it mandatory, they know that this 
wouldn't fly.


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com