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We had the final three reports: Russia, the Far East, and Latin America. The first report dealt more with questions of intellectual property rather than crypto regulation. Again I realize that I should have given more precise guidelines to this assignment. In fact, much of today's reports were in effect repetition of the other reports (e.g., the Latin American report reflected a great deal the Wassenaar protocols which are championed in Europe). I should have only had 4 or 5 such reports. I should have assigned three other groups to discuss DES (possible topics: what is it [block cipher], why was it invented, what were people worried about, where is it now, what will the future bring). That would have been more interesting and much less repetitive, and I would have had every person in the class participate more meaningfully in a group project involving oral presentation.

I spent the last 20 minutes discussing how to solve the bitstream homework, and postponed its due date until Wednesday.

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