--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: blacklodge.c2.net: majordom set sender to owner-cryptography@c2.org using -f Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:05:53 -0500 Comments: This message was remailed by a pseudonymous server. The operators have no way to determine the original sender. To contact the operator, write to <admin@anon.efga.org>. From: Miles Vorkosigan <miles_w@anon.efga.org> Subject: Re: BXA denies my administrative appeal Sender: owner-cryptography@c2.net To: undisclosed-recipients:; In message <v03007800b09f865249e2@[172.17.1.150]>, Rick Smith writes:
I recently spoke informally with a couple of sub-Cabinet level officials on crypto policy. Their comments indicated that the FBI et al are dominating internal meetings on the subject with the same polarizing rhetoric they're using in Congress. One official said that he was accused of intentionally aiding terrorists at one of these meetings.
During a recent application for crypto export approval, which should have been routine, we were contacted by an individual from the *FBI* (not from BXA) who refused our export license because we didn't have a key recovery system *in place now*. This is despite the facts that: - the export license was to use our strong cryptography products for communications between our international sales offices and head office; this used to be a rubber-stamp license, and - we are in the process of implementing key recovery technology as part of a a seperate export approval for our DES-56 products. I couldn't even get an answer as to why the FBI had jurisdiction over our export approval. -- Miles --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>