[5364] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Zero Knowledge gets it's own government commission :-) (Re: ECARM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Aug 9 09:00:49 1999
In-Reply-To: <199908090600.CAA30960@marcella.ecarm.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 07:21:38 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:00 AM -0400 on 8/9/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
> Title: Ontario Promotes Private Crypto
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: 3:00 a.m. 6.Aug.99.PDT
> Source: Wired News
> Author: Matt Friedman
> Keywords: GOVT POLICY ,ENCRYPTION ,ADVOCACY ,PERSONAL PROTECT
>
> Abstract/Summary:
> While the US Congress recoils in horror at the prospect of a
>population armed with
> cryptographic tools, a government department in Ontario wants to
>make it clear that
> encryption is good.
>
> More than that, in a paper released Thursday, the Ontario
>Information and Privacy
> Commission said it wants everyone to learn to use encryption.
>
> "What we need is a shift in the mindset of how to use information,"
>said Ann Cavoukian,
> Ontario's privacy commissioner. "A lot of people still think that
>their email is safe from
> prying eyes or tampering. That's not true. We have to protect
>ourselves, and we have to
> know how to use the tools.... We have to get that message out."
>
> Original URL:
>http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/21140.html?wnpg
>=all
>
> Added: Sun Aug 8 22:41:23 -040 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee
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