On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Futplex wrote:
Dave Banisar quotes FBI documents obtained via the FOIA:
Technical solutions, such as they are, will only work if they are incorporated into *all* encryption products. To ensure that this occurs, legislation mandating the use of Government-approved encryption products or adherence to Government encryption criteria is required.
...meanwhile...
Testifying before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on May 3, 1994, Assistant Attorney General Jo Ann Harris asserted that:
As the Administration has made clear on a number of occasions, the key-escrow encryption initiative is a voluntary one; we have absolutely no intention of mandating private use of a particular kind of cryptography, nor of criminalizing the private use of certain kinds of cryptography. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ By exactly what mechanism are appointed (hired ?) officials such as AAG Harris supposedly accountable to the public ? Can they be brought up on perjury charges ? Just what real legal recourse do we have against lying scum in the bureaucracy ? Are we stuck unless we can get some Congresscritter to cry foul on the floor of the House or Senate ?
You sure are anxious to prosecute government officials. What is untrue about her statement. Maybe she meant it's OK to use ROT-13 but nothing else ... And you guys complained about the Jake Baker prosecution! BTW, Harris is no longer AAG-Criminal Division. She went back to teaching, keeping a commitment she made to her family. And yes, she was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> "you said too much; and what you said, it was a lie" -EMF
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