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Unlocking crypto-secrets Wired article -- request for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Oct 22 16:49:36 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:12:39 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
I'm working on a Netizen article for Wired Magazine on secret
crypto-briefings and thought I'd ask the list for help.
You know the briefings I'm talking about -- classified sessions where the
FBI director, the Commerce Dept, NSA, and occasionally anti-drug officials
pressure Congressmen to place restrictions on encryption. Sometimes it
works, and our elected representatives vote to put strict limits on
encryption technologies. (The secret briefings certainly seemed to work on
the House Commerce committee.)
I'd like to unlock those closed doors. What makes these briefings so
compelling? Why do Congressmen switch their votes? If anyone has insights
into what happens during these sessions, I'd be very interested in learning
more. Pointers to open sources would be great. I will keep your identity
confidential.
I'd also be interested in learning more about the secret briefing practices
of other countries.
Please feel free to recirculate this message. I've attached my PGP key
below. Please use it sparingly; I keep my private key on a non-networked
machine and it's laborious to move data back and forth. If you want to send
a tip through an anonymous remailer, a web-based one is at:
http://www.replay.com/remailer/anon_no_ssl.html
Thanks,
Declan
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