Re: Cracking the Code

[John R Levine]

> The Cato Institute released a new Cato Briefing Paper, "Strong
> Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change," as the Clinton
> administration was announcing a relaxation in controls on the export
> of encryption technology. In the paper, Arnold G. Reinhold writes ...

Arnold's a regular on this list.  (He and I write books together, don't 
miss his crypto bits in the upcoming "Internet Secrets".)

There's nothing in this paper that will be new to anyone here, but it's 
nice to see the, er, respectable extreme right wing weighing in exactly 
on the correct side of this issue.

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4  2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47 

Cracking the Code

[Anonymous]

[Excerpt from CATO Update, 20 Sept. 1999:]

The Cato Institute released a new Cato Briefing Paper, "Strong
Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change," as the Clinton
administration was announcing a relaxation in controls on the export
of encryption technology. In the paper, Arnold G. Reinhold writes that
for years the U.S. government has struggled unsuccessfully to control
the export of encryption. Those ineffectual controls adversely affect
the competitive position of the U.S. software industry and national
security. Despite the controls, powerful encryption products are
increasingly available around the world.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-051es.html