NODE 1f5fc7dcRe: More on House Intelligence committee amendment on crypto
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:32:12 +0800
At 03:38 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>So I'm reading through the 43-page amendment to SAFE that the House
>Intelligence committee approved today. It includes:
>
>* Ban on sale of crypto without a backdoor. Five year & fine (maybe
>$250,000?) if violated. Prosecutions can be held in closed-door
>courtrooms, publishers of info about case to be held in contempt of court.
Does the bill retain the 5 years first offense, 10 years second offense
provisions for using crypto in the comission of a crime?
Let's see: Lucky sells five copies of PGP. That's 5+(5+4*10)=50 years in
prison. Or is it (5*5)+(5+4*10)=70 years? Doesn't make much of a difference
at my age, I suppose.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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NODE b5ac57eeRe: More on House Intelligence committee amendment on crypto
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:09:13 +0800
The new SAFE bill retains the five-ten provisions. Remember how the crypto
in a crime provision was narrowed in (I recall) the Judiciary committee?
It's not that narrow anymore; it's been broadened and is much more
encompassing. Small surprise.
-Declan
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
> At 03:38 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >So I'm reading through the 43-page amendment to SAFE that the House
> >Intelligence committee approved today. It includes:
> >
> >* Ban on sale of crypto without a backdoor. Five year & fine (maybe
> >$250,000?) if violated. Prosecutions can be held in closed-door
> >courtrooms, publishers of info about case to be held in contempt of court.
>
> Does the bill retain the 5 years first offense, 10 years second offense
> provisions for using crypto in the comission of a crime?
>
> Let's see: Lucky sells five copies of PGP. That's 5+(5+4*10)=50 years in
> prison. Or is it (5*5)+(5+4*10)=70 years? Doesn't make much of a difference
> at my age, I suppose.
>
>
> --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
> DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56.
> http://rc5.distributed.net/
>
>