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NAS study - crypto policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P. J. Ponder)
Thu Feb 13 11:53:23 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:27:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: cryptography@c2.net
from: http://www.nas.edu/21st/technology/
This is quoted from the National Academy of Sciences web site, and is
part of a larger report.
---Quoted bit follows:
Cryptography is one important tool for protecting information that is very
difficult for governments to control. Cryptography supports the
confidentiality and integrity of digitally represented information (such
as computer data, software, and video) and the authentication of
individuals and computer systems communicating with other computer
systems; these capabilities are important in varied degrees for protecting
the information-security interests of many different private and public
stakeholders, including law enforcement and national security.
Furthermore, cryptography can help to support law-enforcement objectives
in preventing information crimes, such as economic espionage. Current
national cryptography policy is not adequate to support the
information-security requirements of an information society. US national
policy should be changed to support the broad use of cryptography in ways
that take into account competing US needs and desires for individual
privacy, international economic competitiveness, law enforcement, national
security, and world leadership.
