Re: moving Crypto?

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Ray Dillinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is time to move the conference because it is no longer safe for cryptography researchers to enter the USA. Bear I'm worried about the long-term National Security implications. If DMCA stands and US cryptography researchers are imprisoned en

Re: moving Crypto?

2001-08-03 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 9:25 AM -0400 8/1/2001, Derek Atkins wrote: There are many alternative conferences than Crypto, and many of them are already outside the US. Indeed, the IACR already runs EuroCrypt and AsiaCrypt. Personally, I think that trying to move Crypto is just an over-reaction to the current

RE: Effective and ineffective technological measures

2001-08-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Paul Onions wrote: Indeed, my reading of the following extract defining 'encryption research' in the DMCA seems to indicate that it is easier to prosecute someone for exposing a vulnarability in a weak system than for a stronger system. `(1) DEFINITIONS- For