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a copy of your secret key
:            -- and some proposed bills say that the cops
:            may not even need a search warrant to seize it. 
: [snip]
: 
:                 What about the penalties for "unauthorized
:            breaking of another's encryption codes?" That
:            would criminalize cryptanalysis, the way to verify
:            the security of encryption software you buy. "The
:            only way to know the strength of a cipher is
:            cryptanalysis," says Marc Briceno, a
:            cryptography guru at Community ConneXion. 
: 
:                 Then there's Kerrey's statement saying "there
:            will be" restrictions on what encryption products
:            you're permitted to buy from overseas firms. This
:            contradicts Justice Department official Michael
:            Vatis, who told me at a conference this year that
:            the Clinton administration did not want import
:            controls. Though Cabe Franklin, spokesperson
:            for Trusted Information Systems, says Kerrey was
:            misunderstood. "In the briefing afterwards, I found
:            out he didn't mean that at all. He meant import
:            controls, but more regulation than restriction. The
:            same way they wouldn't let a car with faulty
:            steering controls in the country. He meant more
:            quality control," Franklin says. (I don't know
:            about you, but I'm not convinced.) 
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    What a bunch of hooey.
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: 
:                 Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana
:            likely stems from a recent addition to his staff:
:            policy aide Chris McLean. 
: 
:                 McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in
:            former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean
:            drafted the notorious Communications Decency
:            Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail
:            "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislat