Electronic Frontiers Australia has succeeded in obtaining the "Walsh report", with a few paragraphs excised. It's available at http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/Walsh/. It is a broad technology and policy review like the US National Research Council's, though it's more succinct (only a hundred pages long) and done by a single person, on contract to the Australian Government. I recommend reading it. Here's a sample: "The review encountered significant scepticism about mandated key escrow or TTP systems. The national sovereignty of the agencies providing these services could not be guaranteed, with consequent implications for the national interest. There is the strong likelihood that these agencies would become the major targets of foreign intelligence services." John