[5121] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Drawing A Hard Line On Encryption (was Re: Edupage, 16 July 1999)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sat Jul 17 13:44:04 1999
In-Reply-To: <199907162235.QAA00989@spot.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 21:55:17 -0400
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 4:35 PM -0600 on 7/16/99, EDUCAUSE wrote:
> DRAWING A HARD LINE ON ENCRYPTION
> The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously
> approved a measure to control exports of encryption software and
> provide government access to encrypted data. The committee was
> the fourth House panel to approve the amendment, which was
> designed to ensure that government agencies can obtain court
> orders to access encrypted information. The committee also
> adopted a measure allowing the president to control, and deny,
> encryption exports significant to national security. Last, the
> committee approved language authorization funding to enable law
> enforcement and intelligence agencies to better prevent the
> spread of increasingly powerful encryption software. These
> issues have been the subject of much controversy, as software
> manufacturers argue that they are losing market share from export
> controls, while privacy activists oppose law enforcement access
> to encrypted data. (Washington Post 07/16/99)
-----------------
Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
