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Re: Crypto Under Digital Copyright Act

On Mon, 18 May 1998, John Young wrote:

> Congressional Record: May 15, 1998 (Senate)
> 
>                     DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
> 
>   Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I rise today to speak about a section in the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act that I am particularly proud of, and
> that is the law enforcement exception in the bill.

Yup. Reverse engineer a cipher, go to jail. Seems future security analysis
of ciphers will have to be released anonymously from Tonga.

-- Lucky Green <[email protected]> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
   "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"