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...explained the difference by saying that Chinese manufacturers often assemble from raw materials and then export the goods. Thus, many Chinese exports to the U.S. "represent a transfer of exports to the U.S. by these other countries and regions," he said...
...which makes a widely-used encryption engine, has opened an Australian subsidiary which can sell its technology world-wide. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has estimated that U.S. companies are forced to stand by and lose $60 billion a year of revenues as foreign competitors, unbound by export restrictions, sell to anyone who will...
...weak software. In January, a graduate student at Duke University took only four hours to break a code similar to those Web browsers use to protect credit card numbers. Netscape and Microsoft offer strong-encryption versions of their browsers to U.S. residents who ask for them, but because of export restrictions, the weak version is the standard. Many other products are similarly affected. Also in January, two private organizations, using $250,000 in computer equipment, cracked a code standard for government agencies and financial institutions in under 24 hours...
Nonetheless, such a plan would be extremely dangerous; just like the export restrictions, it would weaken individuals' privacy without hurting criminals. A key escrow law would be very difficult to enforce, since lawbreakers could always use the products already widespread before the restrictions. Whether the third parties involved in this system could be trusted would always be a matter of faith...
...Human Rights and necessary to a free society. Human rights groups in oppressive nations are frequent users of strong encryption, and these groups could not long survive if they were forced to give their government an electronic key. Soon Congress will consider two bills which would lift the export bans and prevent governmental key escrow; let's hope that Congress will be motivated more by a respect for personal freedoms than by fear of their misuse. Stephen E. Sachs '02, a Crimson editor, lives in Grays Hall...