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Re: BXA Testimony at SAFE Hearing
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In <[email protected]>, on 09/06/97
at 07:43 PM, John Young <[email protected]> said:
>See William Reinsch's testimony on the administration's
>encryption policy at the September 4 SAFE hearing:
> http://jya.com/bxa090497.htm
>Perhaps dissimulating, or not then clued to the draft GAK bill, Reinsch
>states:
>1. Foreign crypto products are not as widely available as export control
>critics claim, and thus do not threaten US products.
Lie
>2. The administration is against mandatory key escrow.
Lie
>3. Finds the SAFE bill unhelpful but likes its crypto-criminalization
>provision and favors McCain-Kerrey's Secure Public Network Act bill or
>other legislation that will:
> Expressly confirm the freedom of domestic users to choose
> any type or strength of encryption.
Lie
> Explicitly state that participation in a key management
> infrastructure is voluntary .
Lie
> Set forth legal conditions for the release of recovery
> information to law enforcement officials pursuant to lawful
> authority and provide liability protection for key recovery
> agents who have properly released such information.
Any time they want it.
> Criminalize the misuse of keys and the use of encryption to
> further a crime.
Any and all uses will be a crime.
> Offer, on a voluntary basis, firms that are in the business of
> providing public cryptography keys the opportunity to obtain
> government recognition, allowing them to market the
> trustworthiness implied by government approval.
They don't want it nor do they need it.
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