--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:09:24 CST Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques <llou@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: (U.S.) National Cryptography Policy (paper and report) Comments: To: net-lawyers@eva.dc.LSOFT.COM To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM I'm forwarding this post to the CYBERIA-L and NET-LAWYERS lists as I think subscribers might be interested in these documents (include discussion of export controls), and their implication for international communications. Cheers, Lyo (Lyonette Louis-Jacques at llou@midway.uchicago.edu): Cryptography and the National Resource Council: The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy, by Kenneth W. Dam, is now available on the Web. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Occasional/ The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy is adapted from a presentation made to the Presidents' Circle of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., November 21, 1996. It was recently issued as Occasional Paper No. 38 by the University of Chicago Law School. Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School, was the Chair of the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy. The Committee unanimously recommended eliminating restrictions on domestic use of encryption, and progressively relaxing restrictions on export. The government's concerns that national security and law enforcement agencies would be unable to eavesdrop on criminals and terrorists must be balanced against the dangers that American firms would be unable to lawfully use encryption strong enough to protect electronic commerce, and that American software developers, forced to use key escrow/key recovery encryption in their products ("a Maginot Line of defense against hackers") would find no market for their products. A late draft of the Committee's Report, "Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society," is available at their home page: http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/2646.html ----------- Paradise is exactly like + where you are right now .&______~*@*~______&. m only much, much, better "w/%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\w" mmm*** ------------------------ `Y""Y""Y"""""Y""Y""Y' mm***** Language -- it's a shipwreck, p-p_|__|__|_____|__|__|_q-q mm**Y** it's a job - Laurie Anderson _-[EEEEM==M==MM===MM==M==MEEEE]-_.|..|.... (two .sigs sighted on the Net) --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://offshore.com.ai/fc97/ "If *you* don't go to FC97, *I* don't go to FC97"