[118109] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why did White House change its mind on crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Wienke)
Mon Sep 20 02:06:51 1999
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:37:21 -0700
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From: Jonathan Wienke <mis@itiaccess.com>
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At 04:58 PM 9/17/99 -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
>I think we should take Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hambre at his
>word (from the White House briefing):
>
>"MR. HAMRE: ... The national security establishment -- the Department
>of Defense, the intelligence community -- strongly supports this
>strategy. Indeed, we created the first draft of the strategy and
>presented it to our colleagues in the interagency process. We in the
>Defense Department did it because I think we feel the problem more
>intensively than does anyone else in the United States. We are the
>largest-single entity that operates in cyberspace. No one is as large
>as we are. We are just as vulnerable in cyberspace as is anybody, and
>we strongly need the sorts of protections that come with strong
>encryption and a key infrastructure that we're calling for in this
>strategy."
Let me see... "I didn't inhale." "There were no pyrotechic devices used at
Waco." "I did not have sex with that woman..." [insert your own examples
here.] I don't take anything anyone in the Clinton administration says at
face value. Anyone who does is a fool.
Jonathan
