17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 04:08 PM 7/16/95 -0400, Dave Banisar wrote:
Attempts to ban encryption 1977-1995
1977-1980 NSA Director Inman calls crypto born secret. Should be restricted. Attempts to use Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 to patent inventions by academic researchers. Attempts to use export control laws to limit scientific discussion.
NSA Threatens NSF over grants for crypto studies.
I hope that you emphasize the big impact of the IEEE/MIT/Scientific American/NSA/"A Proposal for a Public Key Encryption System" flap of 1978(?). An awful lot of people first learned about public-key/private-key algorithms because of that fight. DCF "You men can't fight in here. This is the War Room." -- Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb).