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Re: [email protected]: Open Letter to Internet Community From Senator Burns
At 08:22 PM 5/2/96 -0400, Perry Metzger forwarded the following to the list:
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> In the meantime, I need your help in supporting the effort to repeal
> cryptography export controls. You can find out more by visiting my
> web page http://www.senate.gov/~burns/. There you will find a
> collection of encryption education resources that my Webmaster has
> assembled. I trust that the entire Internet community, from the
> old-timers to those just starting to learn about encryption, will find
> this information useful.
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> Conrad Burns
> United States Senator
I agree that this could be the single most important piece of legislation to
affect the cypherpunks ever -- firmly defining the legal status of
encryption (and in our favor, no less!) However, did anyone actually read
it (it's at
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/pro_CODE_bill.html )? Here's a nice bit of section 2:
]SEC.2.FINDING;PURPOSE
]
] (a) FINDINGS. - The Congress finds the following:
]
] (1) The ability to digitize information makes
] carrying out tremendous amounts of commerce and
] personal communication electronically possible.
] (2) Miniaturization, disturbed computing, and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] reduced transmission costs make communication via
] electronic networks a reality.
I think "disturbed computing" pretty much sums up this list, if not the
entire net! :-)
-j
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