Thanks to everyone who sent me information about Key Recovery. FYI, I gave a fairly objective update on the current status of the bills being debated in the US, distributed the Walsh Report (missing some paragraphs) and reviewed John Davidson's comments on the report, distributed and reviewed "The Risks of Key Recover, Key Escrow and Trusted Third-Party Encryption", distributed and reviewed most of the material written by Carl Ellison, reviewed the recent letter from Janet Reno to Congress, distributed Whit Diffie's May '93 testimony on Clipper, and finished by distributing materials from the TIS site, in particular going over RecoverKey. I can't tell you about any of the other stuff that is currently being presented in the study group, but once the report becomes public, I will try to get an English version up on the Net. It should end up being the Japanese National Poice Agency's official position on Key Escrow, Certification Authorities, and several other issues. I will be participating in another study group soon to discuss many of these issues with the Self Defense Force from the point of view of Japanese national security as well as another NPA study group on what to do about "crackers"... Anyway, if anyone who can give me some insight into these areas will be at HIP, I'd love to chat. ;-) Thanks again. - Joi P.S. I am not a "policeman" but an outside boardmember of these study groups. The ministries are under quite a bit of scrutiny these days and the study groups tend to be quite frank and balanced. The reports don't always dictate the law, but since most politicians do not have real staffers, therefore most of the expert study is done in the ministries. -- Finger jito@nsm.eccosys.com or jito@garage.co.jp for PGP Key Fingerprint for RSA PGP Key ID 0x0EE23A2D 0D3A 7AAA 3DA8 E7B3 3AF1 C6FA B7ED D834 Fingerprint for DSS/Diffie-Hellman PGP Key ID 0x2D9461F1 58F3 CA9A EFB8 EB9D DF18 6B16 E48D AF2A 2D94 61F1 Home Page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf To subscribe to my personal mailing list send mailto:friends-subscribe@ito.com