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Euro Conference on Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P. J. Ponder)
Fri Aug 1 15:41:38 1997
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:10:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Reply-To: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: cryptography@c2.net
This is from the European Commission's ACTS news feed:
>Conference on Cryptography and the Internet
At the European Parliament, Brussels, Monday, Sept. 15, 1997
A one day conference on Developing Privacy and Security Policy for the
European Information Society will be organised by Privacy International
(PI), a human rights organisation concerned with privacy, surveillance and
data protection issues worldwide, on September 15, at the European
Parliament in Brussels.
As Europe creates the Information Society, ensuring the security and
privacy of its advanced telecommunications and computer networks has
become critically important. Cryptography is a crucial technology to
protect these networks. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies, led by
the United States, are lobbying national governments and international
organisations for laws and international agreements to enhance their
abilities to monitor networks through the use of "trusted third parties,"
key escrow and key recovery systems. This has met with considerable debate
and resistance in many countries and international meetings. This
conference will bring together leading legal and technical experts from
around the world to discuss encryption and telecommunications security
with a focus on issues raised by trusted third party, key escrow and key
recovery systems.
A panel of leading cryptographers and computer security experts will
examine the technical problems and risks raised. Representatives from
governments, human rights groups, industry, user groups, and international
organisations will discuss their perspectives and provide updates on
developments from around Europe and the world. The invited keynote speaker
is EU Commissioner Mario Monti.
Detailed information about the conference including the agenda, online
registration and payment using First Virtual, and other related materials
is available at <http://www.privacy.org/pi/conference/brussels/>
Contact: David Banisar, Privacy International Washington Office,
<ast3@privacy.org>.
By Reinhard Geiger, Techno-Z FH F&E, 31.07.1997
