[PEN-L:3884] Strange Bedfellows

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This issue is of critical importance and highly complex.
Positions are being taken and alliances formed by strange political
bedfellows that will shift as the issue revolves.
It will touch on every aspects of the global economy, security,
individual privacy and freedom.
Some discussion may help clear the air a little.

Henry C.K. Liu





The New York Times, February 26, 1999


          Lawmakers Renew Encryption Battle

          By JERI CLAUSING

                WASHINGTON - Backed by a new generation of House
leaders,
                 Representatives Bob Goodlatte and Zoe Lofgren on
Thursday
          renewed their encryption fight with the White House by
refiling
          legislation to lift the Clinton Administration's export
controls on the
          data scrambling technology.

          The bill, the Security and Freedom through Encryption Act
(SAFE),
          was introduced with 205 sponsors, including the Republican
          Majority Leader, Dick Armey of Texas, the Democratic Whip,
David
          E. Bonior of Michigan, and the new chairman of a key committee

          that kept the measure from moving to the floor for a vote last
year.

Full article:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/cyber/articles/26encrypt.html