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Re: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Sep 14 02:12:50 2001
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:27:52 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
At 1:59 PM -0700 9/13/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html
>
> Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws
> By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
> 1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT
>
> WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun.
>
...
> In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire)
> called for a global prohibition on encryption products without
> backdoors for government surveillance.
>
> "This is something that we need international cooperation on and we
> need to have movement on in order to get the information that allows
> us to anticipate and prevent what occurred in New York and in
> Washington," Gregg said, according to a copy of his remarks that an
> aide provided.
>
...
>
> [...]
>
> Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, a hawkish think tank
> that has won accolades from all recent Republican presidents, says
> that this week's terrorist attacks demonstrate the government must be
> able to penetrate communications it intercepts.
>
> "I'm certainly of the view that we need to let the U.S. government
> have access to encrypted material under appropriate circumstances and
> regulations," says Gaffney, an assistant secretary of defense under
> President Reagan.
>
> [...]
>
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So the honorable gentlemen are proposing unilateral crypto disarmament? Or
perhaps a world where many governments can read the business plans and
strategies of US companies? Or perhaps a world where the terrorists
themselves can read the travel plans of their targets?
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