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Re: Pro-CODE Crypto Bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Sun Mar 2 20:47:04 1997
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 11:16:25 -0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
From: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970302174758.0070ce0c@pop.pipeline.com>
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At 12:47 PM 3/2/97 -0500, John Young wrote:
>We've put the new Senate Pro-CODE encryption bill at:
>
> http://jya.com/s377.htm (23K)
There is an interesting addition to the bill that I have not seen discussed
here yet. The pro-code bill has added an "Information Security Board". This
provision worries me. It sound like a nice little rubber hose committee.
("The House Committee on Unamerican Encryption"?)
Any opinions on this new development?
Here is the quoted section (from John Young's site):
>SEC. 6. INFORMATION SECURITY BOARD.
>
>(a) Information Security Board To Be Established.--The Secretary shall
establish an Information Security Board
>comprised of representatives of agencies within the Federal Government
responsible for or involved in the formulation of
>information security policy, including export controls on products with
information security features (including encryption).
>The Board shall meet at such times and in such places as the Secretary may
prescribe, but not less frequently than
>quarterly. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) does not apply
to the Board or to meetings held by the
>Board under subsection (d).
>
>(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the Board are--
>
> (1) to provide a forum to foster communication and coordination between
industry and the Federal
> government; and
>
> (2) to foster the aggregation and dissemination of general,
nonproprietary, and nonconfidential developments
> in important information security technologies, including encryption.
>
>(c) Requirements.--
>
> (1) Reports to agencies.--The Board shall regularly report general,
nonproprietary, and nonconfidential
> information to appropriate Federal agencies to keep law enforcement and
national security agencies abreast
> of emerging technologies so they are able effectively to execute their
responsibilities.
>
> (2) Publications.--The Board shall cause such information (other than
classified, proprietary, or confidential
> information) as it deems appropriate, consistent with its purposes, to
be published from time to time
> through any appropriate medium and to be made available to the public.
>
>(d) Meetings.--The Secretary shall establish a process for quarterly
meetings between the Board and representatives
>from the private sector with interest or expertise in information security,
including cryptographers, engineers, and
>product managers. The Board may meet at anytime with one or more
representatives of any person involved in the
>development, production, or distribution of encryption technology or of
computing devices that contain encryption
>technology.
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