(message sent to interesting persons - bcc: field) Conference The Public Voice and the Development of International Encryption Policy Sponsored by Electronic Privacy Information Center Global Internet Liberty Campaign Internet Privacy Coaltion Open Society Institute - Soros Foundation Planete Internet September 25, 1996 Centre de Conférence Internationale 19 Avenue Kleber, Paris 16, France Program, registration and further information (English): http://www.epic.org/events/crypto_paris Or (French) http://www.netpress.fr/crypto PARIS, September 16 The international developement of the Internet leads governments, users organisations and corporations to find a compromise for the use and disposal of encryption, which allows to keep the secrecy of digital communications. Governments want to keep the possibility to intervene on communications in order to fight computer crime. The industry (private companies) search a way to keep an eye on their communications' integrity not to erode their competitivity. And privacy organisations want to preserve citizens' privacy and freedom of speech in expression networks such as the Internet. Before a meeting of governmental experts (under the auspices of the OECD Sept 26, 27 in Paris), the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, DC-based organisation, asked scientists, international right jurists and associations to meet on September 25 for a conference. The conference will stresses on legal aspects of computer-based secrecy, based on propositions made by some countris to create a regime of "encryption under conditions" (encryption under control), on the Trusted Third Party Services (TTP) scheme. Companies that will keep encryption keys of corporations and individuals would have to keep them at disposition of law enforcement authorities. Who will play this TTP role? Which garanty for end users? EPIC asked the world's most valuable experts to answer these questions. PROGRAM SUMMARY find the whole and last one at http://www.epic.org/events/crypto_paris/schedule.html Cryptographers: Zimmermann (PGP Inc), Diffie (Sun, pub-key system inventor), Anderson (Cambridge U., UK), Blaze (Bell Lab), etc. Scientists and experts: Horibe (Hitotsubashi U.), Carpenter (IAB), Simons (ACM), etc. Privacy advocates from EPIC (Rotenberg, Banisar), ACLU (Steinhardt), Privacy International (Davies), and French League for Human Rights. Officials and/or governmental experts from : OECE crypto & security ad hox commissions, Attorney General Dept and High Court (Australia), Economic Ministry (Germany), Austrian Law Institute, etc. CONTACTS FOR INFO & REGISTRATIONS USA: EPIC: Mark Rotenberg <rotenberg@epic.org>, Dave Banisar <banisar@epic.org>. 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301, Washington, DC 20003. +1 202 544 9240 (tel), +1 202 547 5482 (fax) FRANCE Planete Internet (Net Press), Paris: Xavier Cany <cany@netpress.fr>, Jerome Thorel <thorel@netpress.fr>. 191 Av. Aristide Briand, F-94230 Cachan. +33 1 49 08 58 33 (tel), +33 1 49 08 58 31 (fax). Jerome Thorel * Planete Internet Journaliste / ID#72052 * Editor / Redak chef 191 Av. A. Briand * Tel : (331) 49085830 94230 CACHAN * web : www.netpress.fr