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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: DES export regulations.  And what to do about it!
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.022309.19716@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Jan 91 02:23:09 GMT
References: <1548@inews.intel.com> <1991Jan3.173546.9809@dramba.neis.oz> <14511@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <14511@hoptoad.uucp> by gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore):
+---------------
| People can endlessly debate the small points of the rules; I want to
| understand the big ones.  WHY SHOULD PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY BE ILLEGAL?
| Why does the US government think that privacy is something neither its
| subjects, nor the citizens of other countries, should have?
+---------------

The rest of your message continues the implication that it's all a plot to
make privacy illegal.

That isn't the intent.  Despite the fact that it's all for nought, the U.S.
government is worried about hostile foreign powers violating *its own* privacy
by decrypting its DES-encypted data.  Considering that anyone who wants to
type in code from Andrew S. Tanenbaum's COMPUTER NETWORKS can bring up DES,
this is a bit silly, but nonetheless your assumption that it's Big Brother
out to get us is equally silly.

++Brandon
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