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Crypto nixed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Apr 1 21:05:46 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:53:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Anonymous <anonymous@cyberspace.nil>
To: cryptography@c2.net
[I removed the user's name at their request. -- pm]
Anyone have any ideas about what's going down?
AP.national (03-26) 23:50:40
Report: Allies nix U.S. plan for Internet
eavesdropping
NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite support from France and Great Britain, a U.S.
proposal to allow law enforcement agencies
to eavesdrop on the Internet is headed for defeat, The New York Times
reported today.
The United States had endorsed an international system of
computer-security codes that would have been held by law
enforcement agencies and could only be accessed after obtaining a court
order.
The 29 nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development in Paris were expected to
formally reject the proposal today, the paper reported.
Industrial nations are divided over whether governments can ever
legitimately eavesdrop on the electronic communications
of their citizens.
Since messages on the Internet are easy to intercept, some people and
businesses are protecting their privacy by scrambling
their communications.
Some nations have either outlawed or are tightening regulations on
data-scrambling systems, some of which are used to
commit crime.
