New Presidential Crypto Advisor

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

 22 December 1997, U.S. Newswire:

 Clinton Nominates Honigman Special Advisor to President 

 Washington, Dec. 22 -- The President today announced the appointment of Steven 
 S. Honigman as Special Advisor to the President. Mr. Honigman will bring
senior 
 level and government-wide leadership to the Administration's procurement of 
 encryption technology and services. 

 Mr. Honigman's responsibilities will include assuring that agency procurement
 policies, requirements, practices and programs are coordinated and consistent 
 with Administration encryption policies. He will also coordinate agency 
 encryption pilot projects and bring them to production, promote public-private 
 standards development, and maintain a dialogue with the public about these 
 efforts. His work will require consultation with all major Federal agencies, 
 White House policy offices, the Congress, market participants, foreign 
 entities and the private sector. 

 Mr. Honigman has served since June 1993 as the General Counsel of the Navy. In
 that position, he has been the Department of the Navy's chief legal officer
and 
 the principal legal advisor to the Secretary of the Navy. As Navy General 
 Counsel, he has been a leader in acquisition reform and procurement-related 
 litigation. 

 Mr. Honigman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. degree
 from New York University and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School. Mr.
 Honigman has practiced as a civil litigator in New York City. His areas of
 specialization included international and domestic reinsurance and insurance
 disputes, transactions and insolvencies. 

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