[thelist] 128-bit IE/Mac - legal to post?

Hey Adrian,
I think it is safe now, but 
I am not absolutely sure,
I include my latest reference to it in from
my offline privacy archive..14 Sep 1999.
(source:
q/depesche 99.9.14/2

http://www.quintessenz.at
)
.wolf

"I did not vote for this government."
Statement on Austrian passport 2000

At 11:06 31.05.00 -0400, you wrote:
>but i can't be sure that it's legal (US export laws) for me to post it 
>to the browser archive...


The planned changes come on the heels of a report from a special 
presidential advisory committee recommending the White House 
abandon nearly all export controls on software that protects Internet 
communications. 
..
William Reinsch, the Undersecretary of Commerce and President 
Clinton's point man on encryption policy, declined to comment on the 
upcoming announcement or the advisory committee's report, which 
has not been made public. But he said the Administration's new 
policy would be announced by September 16. The changes, he said, 
are the "result of our own policy review," although he did 
acknowledge that the advisory commission report "was valuable input 
into that." 
...
In June, the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption 
sent the White House a report recommending the Administration 
loosen its restrictions on encryption technology to allow for the 
export of consumer products based on a 128-bit key. That is 
significantly stronger than the current limit on encryption products 
exempt from control. 
....
White House and Commerce Department officials are keeping quiet 
about how far the policy changes will go. But if the changes reflect 
recommendations made in the advisory panel's report, it would move 
the Administration much closer to ending its years-long battle with 
the high-tech industry. Technology executives say they are losing 
their lead to companies in countries without export restrictions. 

The Administration has resisted calls to eliminate the restrictions 
because of strong opposition from the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
and other law enforcement agencies. Those groups have been 
pushing tying any easing of export restrictions to mandates that 
software developers develop "spare keys" so law officers can easily 
unlock scrambled data and communications when they suspect a 
crime is being committed. 

Stewart Baker, a member of the advisory panel and former counsel to 
the National Security Agency, characterized the committee's report 
as "the most sweeping set of liberalizations that have ever been 
recommended by a government advisory body." 
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http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/capital/14capital.html