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Dear Dorothy,
all this is bullshit. This was around the time I started posting my
requirements for the highest security encryption. You may remember my
postings on the Wassenaar Agreements and others. Also my references to
one Erkki Liikanen and his letters from Madeleine Albright.
Make Von Islander
P.S. Why did you ever get involved in some political postings from the
White House. I have just been listening you here on the Internet and
you do not know me so well. Actually, you may... I do not really know?
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:30:38 -0400
From: denning@cs.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning)
Subject: Statement By The Press Secretary: Administration Announces
New Approach to Encryption
To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Content-MD5: Ztfi4DF/h8LsKqKbIxhoFA==
Sender: owner-ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
___________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release
September 16, 1999
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
Administration Announces New Approach to Encryption
One year ago today, Vice President Gore announced updates to the
Administration's encryption policy to serve the full range of national
interests: promoting electronic commerce, supporting law enforcement
and
national security, and protecting privacy. The announcement permitted
the
export of strong encryption to protect sensitive information in the
financial, health, medical, and electronic commerce sectors. It also
included support for the continued ability of the nation's law
enforcement
community to access, under strictly defined legal procedures, the
plain
text of criminally related communications and stored information. At
that
time the Administration committed to reviewing its policy in one year.
Today, the Administration announces the results of that review,
conducted
in consultation with industry and privacy groups and the Congress.
The strategy announced today continues to maintain the balance
among
privacy, commercial interests, public safety and national security.
This
approach is comprised of three elements -- information security and
privacy,
a new framework for export controls, and updated tools for law
enforcement.
First, the strategy recognizes that sensitive electronic information
--
government, commercial, and privacy information -- requires strong
protection from unauthorized and unlawful access if the great promise
of
the electronic age is to be realized. Second, it protects vital
national
security interests through an updated framework for encryption export
controls that also recognizes growing demands in the global
marketplace for
strong encryption products. Finally, it is designed to assure that,
as
strong encryption proliferates, law enforcement remains able to
protect
America and Americans in the physical world and in cyberspace.
With respect to encryption export controls, the strategy
announced
today rests on three principles: a one-time technical review of
encryption
products in advance of sale, a streamlined post-export reporting
system,
and a process that permits the government to review the exports of
strong
encryption to foreign government and military organizations and to
nations
of concern. Consistent with these principles, the government will
significantly update and simplify export controls on encryption.
The updated guidelines will allow U.S. companies new
opportunities to
sell their products to most end users in global markets. Under this
policy:
* Any encryption commodity or software of any key length may be
exported
under license exception (i.e., without a license), after a
technical
review, to individuals, commercial firms, and other
non-government end
users in any country except for the seven state supporters of
terrorism.
* Any retail encryption commodities and software of any key length
may
be exported under license exception, after a technical review, to
any
end user in any country, except for the seven state supporters of
terrorism.
* Streamlined post-export reporting will provide government with an
understanding of where strong encryption is being exported, while
also
reflecting industry business models and distribution channels.
* Sector definitions and country lists are eliminated.
The Administration intends to codify this new policy in export
regulations by December 15, 1999, following consultations on the
details
with affected stakeholders.
In support of public safety, the President is today transmitting to
the
Congress legislation that seeks to assure that law enforcement has the
legal tools, personnel, and equipment necessary to investigate crime
in an
encrypted world. Specifically, the Cyberspace Electronic Security Act
of
1999 would:
* Ensure that law enforcement maintains its ability to access
decryption
information stored with third parties, while protecting such
information
from inappropriate release.
* Authorize $80 million over four years for the FBI's Technical
Support
Center, which will serve as a centralized technical resource for
Federal, State, and local law enforcement in responding to the
increasing use of encryption by criminals.
* Protect sensitive investigative techniques and industry trade
secrets
from unnecessary disclosure in litigation or criminal trials
involving
encryption, consistent with fully protecting defendants' rights to
a
fair trial.
In contrast to an early draft version of the bill, the
Administration's legislation does not provide new authorities for
search
warrants for encryption keys without contemporaneous notice to the
subject.
The bill does not regulate the domestic development, use and sale of
encryption. Americans will remain free to use any encryption system
domestically.
The Administration looks forward to continuing to work with the
Congress, industry, and privacy and law enforcement communities to
ensure a
balanced approach to this issue. |
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