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IP: Interesting re Encryption Technology Limits Eased
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:01:00 -0400
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:07:15 -0400 To: Lucky Green <shamrock () cypherpunks to> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Lucky, actually not everyone missed it. It's our top story on Wired News this morning. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html Decoding the Crypto Policy Change 3:00 a.m. Why did the White House suddenly change its mind on regulating encryption? It couldn't be because the NSA has changed its spying agenda. Or could it? A Wired News perspective by Declan McCullagh. -Declan At 23:07 9/16/1999 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:less operationally savvy. No, what I find interesting is that so far everybody missed the one paragraph in the announcement that actually offered new information about the USG's insidious objectives. [...] " 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." Having just read the proposed bill, what this paragraph refers to is that under the proposed bill, LE will be able to enter evidence gathered by means of factory-installed backdoors, intrusion, and other means without needing to disclose to the defense or the Jury how this evidence was obtained. All
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