Forwarded From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdysonat_private> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- (You'd think at least the IRS would want crypto unfettered. More money for the coffers from 9 billion in revenue, eh? - Jay) Forwarded from the 21 May Edupage [excerpted]: ************************************************************ Edupage, 21 May 1998. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ************************************************************ [...] U.S. Encryption Policy Could Cost Companies $9 Billion [...] U.S. ENCRYPTION POLICY COULD COST COMPANIES $9 BILLION A study released recently the Economic Strategy Institute shows that U.S. makers of encryption software could miss out on $9-billion worth of sales over the next five years, if the U.S. doesn't revise its export policy. Although the administration has shown some signs of willingness to relax its stance against encryption export, companies remain wary. Government officials "continually play this game of offering some meaningless relief, promising more and never delivering," says RSA Data Security president Jim Bidzos. "They're gridlocked. When pressed to make concessions, the NSA and FBI never find any compromises acceptable." "We need to get a new dialogue started," says IBM's public policy director. "As long as there is posturing by law enforcement on one hand and people advocating total freedom to use and export strong encryption on the other, you're going to end up in this area of paralysis." (Investor's Business Daily 21 May 98) [...] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNWTmJue1NzV7EsRFAQGe1wQAt/qOd2XfdA1l6gP6SZdByoUvnpqbHddA Ql7CcuL48vLbngR3qYHfVoQjrqbpwVw0Vl5M/RUuCbeFlIJTvjwKxYTfkrhx55N0 q3XzNryD1HDcSfCijfgzug9PMltlfy88p+2jjWyRa7uhGF0+7x3Wyc5mqofEFFGi XBU0K9lFKaI= =b2KO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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