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President's crypto-committee meets in secret
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Jun 23 10:20:22 1998
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/article/0,2334,13771,00.html
TIME.com / The Netly News
June 23, 1998
By Declan McCullagh
Let's say, just for argument's sake, that you're a top bureaucrat
whose job is to convince American businesses that those wickedly
unpopular encryption regulations are OK after all. You could do worse
than follow Commerce Department Undersecretary Bill Reinsch's lead:
Set up an advisory committee, hand-pick its members, kick the public
out of the room for a classified briefing from the NSA, and hope for
the best.
That's what happened on Monday during the third meeting of the
President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption. It's still too
early to tell how crypto-conciliatory the members will be with the
feds, but the lineup of speakers at each meeting isn't helping. No
privacy groups or cryptographers have been invited.
[...remainder snipped...]
