re wh announcement q who was consulted the congress industry a we have on going discussions with congress and industry on encryption issues and expect those discussions to intensify as we carry out our review of encryption policy we have briefed members of congress and industry leaders on the decisions related to this initiative congress so we re playing politics before we talk to cpsr academia the public internet users i ve heard of top down design but top down democracy just whose state district are the chip manufacturers in q if the administration were unable to find a technological solution like the one proposed would the administration be willing to use legal remedies to restrict access to more powerful encryption devices a this is a fundamental policy question which will be considered during the broad policy review bs about the wonderfulness of the key escrow system the administration is not saying since encryption threatens the public safety and effective law enforcement we will prohibit it outright as some countries have effectively done they ll just provide an easily compromised version to jq public nor is the u s saying that every american as a matter of right is entitled to an unbreakable commercial encryption product maybe we need a cra cryptographic rights amendment there is a false tension created in the assessment that this issue is an either or proposition rather both concerns can be and in fact are harmoniously balanced through a reasoned balanced approach such as is proposed with the clipper chip and similar encryption techniques nice lullaby but why am i not soothed also in article leland stanford edu arc leland stanford edu andrew richard conway writes p s i can t work out why the us government doesn t want to sell them overseas after all they are rather easy for us interests to decode so make a perfect tool for industrial military espionage lulling anyone stupid enough to buy it into a false sense of security you will notice that there is no mention anywhere about safety for non americans why repeat themselves it appears to some and the story looks pretty convincing to me too that the justice department stole a case tracking system modified it and distributed it to friendly police and suchlike agencies around the world eg the canadian mounties of course i have no doubt they swore scout s honor that there were no backdoors with that kind of intelligence who d want to be swamped with terabytes of commercial traffic dwight tuinstra best tuinstra sandman ece clarkson edu tolerable tuinstrd craft camp clarkson edu homo sapiens planetary cancer news at six
