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PECSENC Docs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon May 17 15:26:53 1999
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:42:50 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
We offer several documents from the PECSENC meeting
of February 14, 1999:
1. Agenda
2. Members of PECSENC
3. Memorandum on PECSENC Action Plan
4. Executive Summary, PECSENC Meeting Open Session, March 12, 1999
5. Candid Meeting Comments (backdoor algorithms)
http://jya.com/pecsenc051499.htm
No. 5:
Candid Meeting Comments (backdoor algorithms):
Stewart Baker (ex-NSA Counsel, ex-PECSENC Acting
Chairman): "McCain's bill [S.768] is stupid, written as idiot
proof by ignorant people who don't understand that key
recovery is dead. (Smile.)" (Emphasis in original)
William Reinsch, Undersecretary of the Bureau of Export
Administration: "The Senate doesn't get it, what we want
them to do, the House does. (Smile.)"
Several Attendees: "We've got to help them, give them
[legislators] language that is acceptable. (Knowing nods.)"
William Reinsch: "BXA will recommend to the Justice
Department that the Bernstein decision be fought, we've
got to, otherwise encryption export controls are finished.
(Frown, '... national security ... '.)"
William Crowell, PECSENC Chairman (ex-Deputy DIRNSA):
"While PECSENC recommendations should formally go through
the President's Export Council (PEC), we've got access to the
White House. (Smile)."
Several Attendees: "What will happen if Bernstein prevails,
source code is exportable but executable code is not? Right,
all the strong encryption will be developed outside the United
States. The encryption industry will abandon America. (Gasps,
groans, grins, eyerolls, poots.)"
