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Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company  
The Boston Globe

April 15, 1999, Thursday ,City Edition

SECTION: ECONOMY; Pg. D2

LENGTH: 123 words

HEADLINE: Bill introduced to ease exports of encryption;
BUSINESS BRIEFS

BYLINE: (Reuters)

BODY:

   A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to ease strict US export controls on computer data-scrambling technologies. The bill would slightly relax export controls on computer encryption products, which use mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software "key." With the growth of electronic commerce and global communications over the Internet, encryption has become an increasingly critical tool for securing information and an important part of the high-tech marketplace. But US law enforcement and national security agencies, fearing encryption will be used by criminals or terrorists, have pushed to maintain strict controls on the scrambling technology.

LOAD-DATE: April 15, 1999