Software Firms Call U.S. Plan on Encryption 'Unworkable'

Tags: 1990s Clinton Export Controls

Authors: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Published: December 1996

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1996/12/11/software-firms-call-us-plan-on-encryption-unworkable/fe7f8d34-6f38-4523-834d-e2abfaa90036/

Abstract: This article details the Business Software Alliance, a software industry group, and its rejection of Clinton Administration export controls as unworkable. This disagreement presented a large roadblock to discussions between industry and government