[117774] in Cypherpunks
Re: PECSENC Report Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Sep 10 05:37:00 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 01:39:08 -0700
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 08:21 AM 9/9/99 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:18:36PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>> Dorothy Denning's site now says
>> "Liberalization 2000, the recommendations of the
>> President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC),
>> is temporarily unavailable.
>> According to FACA, it was not to have been distributed
>> and discussed with the Press until after it was approved by the full PEC
>> and sent to the President.
>
>I believe that "FACA" refers to the "Federal Advisory Committee Act" (5
>USC Appendix 2, Sections 1-15), legislation which I've heard about but
>not read. It strikes me as plausible that members of the subcommittee
>aren't supposed to release the results of their investigations and
>deliberations until they've been vetted by the full committee. Perhaps
>other list members are better read on this topic.
If so, that's an especially amusing position for Dorothy to take,
given her previous leadership of the Clipper Whitewash Committee,
which released a preliminary report saying "Skipjack looks strong"
and never did release the final report about the security of Clipper
and its supporting procedures.
Bill Stewart, reporting from Oceania...
