At 12:34 PM -0700 7/20/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
Don't screw with the system, and I can bet how the policy review will come out.
We just had a policy review; the National Academy of Sciences had a very prestigious group do a review of our Cryptographic Policy. It suggested liberalization.
Clearly, someone didn't like that, so the Powers That Be are doing another policy review in the hopes of getting a review that they like. If they don't get something they like, there will be another policy review, chaired by Loius Freeh, and taking testimony from such prestigious cryptographers as Dr. Denning.
This is not a technocracy, and the NAS is not a government policy review body but an advisory one. Having said that, your cynicism is probably well founded. :-) David