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  3. From: jfarrell@cloudbase (Jerry Farrell)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
  5. Subject: Re: A Silver Bullet to Limit Crypto?
  6. Date: 13 Nov 1992 08:45:45 GMT
  7. Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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  14. In article <1992Nov11.195934.14474@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David
  15. Sternlight) suggests that an appropriate response (to a hypothesized
  16. attempt to discourage use of public-key cryptography) might be to enlist
  17. litigious allies such as the ACLU, in the hope that the responsible
  18. agencies would shy away from a court decision which might rule out some of
  19. their current activities.  Perhaps.  Certainly, having allies like the
  20. ACLU, CPSR, and EFF should be useful.  But, given the current makeup of the
  21. Supreme Court, I would much prefer to fight the battle on an earlier front
  22. -- if we can prevail (whatever that means) in Congress, we don't have to
  23. worry about what Justices O'Connor and Souter are thinking today.
  24.  
  25. jf
  26.