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Re: EFF Summary of May 3 1994 Clipper and Digital Telephony Hearings
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- Subject: Re: EFF Summary of May 3 1994 Clipper and Digital Telephony Hearings
- From: joshua geller <[email protected]>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 05:48:47 -0700
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> The Administration continues to maintain
> that the market would accept the Clipper standard based on the
> assumption that it is the strongest encryption scheme, regardless of who
> holds the keys.
but that is just an assumption if the algorithms are not available
for study.
> NSA's Clinton Brooks expressed support for Congressional Consideration
> of the Clipper issue. He argued that Clipper is a sound technological
> solution to a legitimate law enforcement and National Security dilemma,
> and that a public debate on its merits would eventually remove the
> misinformation and mistrust of government, and would prove Clipper to be
> in the public interest.
and 'a public debate on its merits' is difficult when details are secret.
josh