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Wm Daley Dept of Commerce speech 4/15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Wed Apr 15 18:07:21 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:32:41 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
www.doc.gov/ops/ecom.htm
Interesting stuff near the end, are they beginning to grudgingly get the
picture? Of course he still trots out the law enforcement assumption that
they have god-given right to read whatever the hell they want.
Jay
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. . .
The reality is that encryption products are rapidly
multiplying in the global market. At the end of 1997,
we estimate there were 656 encryption products in 29 countries
outside the United States. There are major producers in Germany,
Ireland, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. They are competitive
with anything U.S. producers can make. And they can supply
almost all the needs of computer networks.
. . .
The lack of agreement is caused by the unwillingness to
compromise. There are solutions out there. Solutions that would
meet some of law enforcement's needs without compromising the
concerns of the privacy and business communities. But I fear our
search has thus far been more symbolic than sincere.
The cost of our failure will be high. Law enforcement is
foregoing the opportunity to have some problems addressed, while
effectively forcing our producers to go overseas or fall off the
cutting edge of the market.
The ultimate result will be foreign dominance of the market.
This means a loss of jobs here, and products that do not meet
either our law enforcement or national security needs. We are
headed down a lose-lose path. And we have to get back to win-win.
We've talked a lot about this for several years. We can
talk some more. But without a commitment on all sides to settle
for less than 100 percent, we are no closer to resolution than we
were when we began.
etc.
