Re: Encrypted Communications Privacy Act of 1996 (fwd)

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>]

>>   S 1587 IS
>>   104th CONGRESS
>>   2d Session
>>   To affirm the rights of Americans to use and sell encryption
>>   products, to establish privacy standards for voluntary escrowed
>>   encryption systems, and for other purposes.
>>                    IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
>>                               March 5, 1996
>>   Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. BURNS, Mr. DOLE, Mr. PRESSLER, and Mrs.
MURRAY) 
                                        ^^^^^^^^
Interesting that Bob Dole is supporting it!
It's certainly not a perfect bill, and will presumably be less perfect
by the time it's passed.  But it's a nice alternative to Clinton, who
was happy to buy in to the previous Administration's anti-crypto efforts.


(I'll presumably be voting for Harry Browne or some other Libertarian,
unless I get fed up and vote for Frank Zappa or Hugh Romney; the Democrats
can look me up some year if they decide to run a genuine liberal :-)
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