Re: How I Would Ban Strong Crypto in the U.S.

Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu> writes:

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So, who is in this "emerging consensus"? Foreign governments?

The recent issue of the German law journal NJW-CoR contains a report on the "ICC/BIAC/OECD Business Government Forum on Global Cryptography" in Washington, D.C., 1996-05-07. The author claims that the commerce representatives at the conference said they understood that governments had legitimate interest in key escrow and that key escrow could have commercial benefits. The Japanese government delegation stated that they were shocked about the American and European plans, because the Japanse Constitution prohibits mandatory key esrow. OECD will decide on crypto policy guilelines early in 1997.