moving Crypto?

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 1 Aug 2001, at 9:25, 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 situation.  If the situation really does
> get worse (and the egg-in-face arrest wasn't an abberation) then
> perhaps the conference should get moved to a more friendly North
> American country.

As you know, corrupt judges have closed down a number of industries with frivolous deep pockets lawsuits.  Two of the most obviously improper judgments occurred with the small planes industry, wiping it out within America, and the production of vaccines, wiping out vaccine production.  The 
government eventually decided vaccine production was vital, and took action to protect vaccine manufacturers, but not anyone else.  Although the court decisions were flagrantly improper, and the judges corruptly received benefits fromt their improper decisions, these decisions still stand, and 
have never been undone.

This provides a disturbing precedent that suggests DCMA will stand, and eventually enough crypto researchers will rot in jail that crypto research goes underground.

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