Subject: Update - Congressional Hearings on Clipper and Digital Telephony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congressional hearings on the Administration's Clipper/Skipjack initiative, and the FBI's draft Digital Telephony surveillance bill, and their implications for privacy and First Amendment rights, are to be held May 3, 1994. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), of the Senate Judiciary's Technology and the Law Subcommittee, has expressed skepticism of the Clipper encryption scheme, and has called for hearings to examine the problems of this proposal and its implementation. This effort is due in part to all of you who responded to EFF's grassroots campaign to raise fundamental questions about security and free speech issues in relation to the White House proposal. The Senate hearing will be held on May 3, 1994, 9:30am EDT, Hart Building Rm. 216, and should feature testimony from Trusted Information Systems' Steve Walker, Whitfield Diffie of Sun Microsystems, Asst. Atty. Gen. Jo Ann Harris (Justice Dept., Criminal Div.), NSA Director Adm. Mike McConnell, and Raymond G. Kammer, NIST Dep. Dir. For more information, contact Senate staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee: +1 202 224 3406 (voice), +1 202 224 9516 (fax) Note: this is the full Committee's fax, so address faxes to "Technology and the Law Subcommittee" or delivery may be delayed. Following the Senate Hearings, the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Technology, Evironment and Aviation will be holding a hearing to address related civil liberties issues of both the Clipper scheme and the FBI "Digital Telephony" proposal, which so far remains unsponsored. The hearing will be chaired by Rep. Tim Valentine (D-NC), and is scheduled for May 3, 1994, 1pm EDT, Rayburn Building Rm. 2318. Witnesses will include Dep. Dir. Raymond G. Kammer of NIST, NSA's Dr. Clinton Brooks, representatives from industry in a panel that will include USTA and TIA, expert witnesses Dr. Dorothy Denning and Dr. David Farber, EFF's Jerry Berman on behalf of DPSWG, Chmn. Willis Ware of the Congress/NIST System Security and Privacy Advisory Board, and in a last moment change, the FBI will be represented after all, by James Kallstrom. The House hearing is being held "to review the Administration's policies and legislative proposals dealing with electronic survellance, privacy and security, ...the adequacy of the Computer Security Act in protecting goverment computer systems", and "the Administration's proposed Digital Telephony legislation and decision to promulgate a voluntary federal encryption standard". Futher information can be provided by the staff of the Subcommittee at +1 202 225 9662 (voice), +1 202 225 7815 (fax) Senate Technology and the Law Subcommittee Members ================================================== (Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee) Subcommittee phone: +1 202 224 9516 Subcommittee fax: +1 202 224 3406 NOTE: this is actually the Committee fax, so be sure to address it to the Subcommittee, or delivery may be delayed. p st name phone fax ___________________________________________________________________________ D VT Leahy, Patrick J. 1-202-224-4242 na Subcmte Chair R SD Pressler, Larry 1-202-224-5842 1-202-224-1630 D WI Kohl, Herbert H. 1-202-224-5653 1-202-224-9787 D CA Feinstein, Diane 1-202-224-3841 1-202-228-3954 R PA Specter, Arlen 1-202-224-4254 na House Technology, Environment & Aviation Subcommittee Members ============================================================= (Subcommittee of Science, Space and Technology Committee) Subcommittee phone: +1 202 225 9662 Subcommittee fax: +1 202 225 7815 p st name phone fax ___________________________________________________________________________ D NC Valentine, Tim 1-202-225-4531 1-202-225-1539 Subcmte Chair D KS Glickman, Daniel 1-202-225-6216 pvt D TX Geren, Peter 1-202-225-5071 1-202-225-2786 D IN Roemer, Timothy 1-202-225-3915 1-202-225-6798 D NH Swett, Richard N. 1-202-225-5206 1-202-225-0046 D NJ Klein, Herbert C. 1-202-225-5751 1-202-226-2273 D PA McHale, Paul 1-202-225-6411 1-202-225-5320 D CA Harman, Jane 1-202-225-8220 1-202-226-0684 D GA Johnson, Don 1-202-225-4101 1-202-226-1466 D AZ Coppersmith, Sam 1-202-225-2635 1-202-225-2607 D CA Eshoo, Anna G. 1-202-225-8104 pvt D WA Inslee, Jay 1-202-225-5816 1-202-226-1137 D TX Johnson, Eddie Bernice 1-202-225-8885 1-202-226-1477 D MN Minge, David 1-202-225-2331 pvt D GA Deal, Nathan 1-202-225-5211 1-202-225-8272 D CA Becerra, Xavier 1-202-225-6235 1-202-225-2202 D NJ Torricelli, Robert 1-202-224-5061 1-202-225-0843 D FL Bacchus, James 1-202-225-3671 1-202-225-9039 D WI Barca, Peter W. 1-202-225-3031 pvt D CA Brown Jr., George E. 1-202-225-6161 1-202-225-8671 ex officio R FL Lewis, Thomas 1-202-225-5792 1-202-225-1860 R MD Morella, Constance 1-202-225-5341 1-202-225-1389 R CA Calvert, Ken 1-202-225-1986 pvt R MI Smith, Nick 1-202-225-6276 pvt R MN Grams, Rod 1-202-225-2271 1-202-225-9802 R GA Linder, John 1-202-225-4272 1-202-226-4696 R MA Blute, Peter I. 1-202-225-6101 1-202-225-2217 R MD Bartlett, Roscoe G. 1-202-225-2721 1-202-225-2193 R CA Rohrabacher, Dana 1-202-225-2415 1-202-225-7067 R NJ Zimmer, Richard A. 1-202-225-5801 1-202-225-9181 R OH Hoke, Martin R. 1-202-225-5871 1-202-226-0994 R CA Royce, Ed 1-202-225-4111 1-202-226-0335 R PA Walker, Robert S. 1-202-225-2411 pvt -- Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994