Re: Pro-CODE Crypto Bill

[Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>]

Alan Olsen wrote: 
> At 12:47 PM 3/2/97 -0500, John Young wrote:
> >We've put the new Senate Pro-CODE encryption bill at:
> >   http://jya.com/s377.htm  (23K)

> There is an interesting addition to the bill that I have not seen discussed
> here yet.  The pro-code bill has added an "Information Security Board".  This
> provision worries me.  It sound like a nice little rubber hose committee.
> ("The House Committee on Unamerican Encryption"?)

> Any opinions on this new development?

  As long as Senator Charlie McCarthy is heading the committee, then I
can't foresee any problems.
  (But, for the record, I do not know Alan Olsen, and have never been
associated with him personally, or member of any group with which he is
associated.)

  Excuse me, I hear a pounding on the door... 
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Toto
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