From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Subject: Re: Once tapped, your code is no good any more.
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In article <tcmayC5M2xv.JEx@netcom.com> tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:

>But is it any worse than the current unsecure system? It becomes much
>worse, of course, if the government then uses this "Clinton Clipper"
>to argue for restrictions on unapproved encryption. (This is the main
>concern of most of us, I think. The camel's nose in the tent, etc.)

Excuse me?  This has *already* happened.  There's a couple of humps in
the tent already.  Ask the folks at Qualcomm what became of the
non-trivial encryption scheme they proposed for use in their CDMA
digitial cellular phone standard?  There *already* are restrictions in
place.

Louis Mamakos
