Subject: A public briefing in NYC on the NRC cryptography policy report The NRC report entitled Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society was released on May 30, 1996. A public briefing on the report will be held in New York City: Wednesday, July 10, 1996, 10:00 am to noon. It will be presented at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) under the aegis of its Committee on Science and Law. Mr. Kenneth Dam, study chair and Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law at the University of Chicago, Mr. Colin Crook, committee member and senior technology officer at Citicorp, and Dr. Herbert Lin, study director and senior staff officer of CSTB, will be present. The briefing will take place in the Stimson Room, 42 W. 44th Street, New York, New York, from 10:00 a.m. to Noon. Committee members will respond to questions from attendees, and a limited number of pre-publication copies of the report will be available at that time. For further information, please contact Michael Schiffres of the ABCNY Committee on Science and Law at (718) 248-5708 for further information. The event is open to the press and the public. If you have suggestions about other places that the committee should offer a public briefing, please send e-mail to crypto@nas.edu.