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Friday January 24 10:08 AM EST
US Senator Will Reintroduce Encryption Export Bill
WASHINGTON - Sen. Conrad Burns will reintroduce next week his measure
to substantially eliminate export restrictions on computer encoding
technology, a spokesman for the Senator says.
"We are aiming for the 28th (of January) and it will be the same bill
as last year," Matt Raymond, spokesman for the Montana Republican,
said.
President Clinton signed an executive order in November slightly
relaxing export controls on encryption technology -- computer programs
that use mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it
unreadable without a password or software "key."
But many in Congress and the computer industry have said the new
Clinton policy did not go far enough to lift the Cold War era export
limits that classified most encryption programs as munitions.
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