========================================================================= _ _ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ _ _ _ __ ___| |_ / _` |/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / __| '__/ _` |/ __| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ __| | (_| | __/ | | | | | (_) | (__| | | (_| | (__| |_| |_| | | | __/ |_ \__,_|\___|_| |_| |_|\___/ \___|_| \__,_|\___|\__, (_)_| |_|\___|\__| |___/ Government Without Walls _________________________________________________________________________ Update No.12 http://www.democracy.net/ July 31 1997 _________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents - Live cybercast - Cryptography: Scientific freedom and human rights - Featured speakers - Program overview - About democracy.net _________________________________________________________________________ LIVE CYBERCAST - CRYPTOGRAPHY: SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS Interested in exploring the human rights and scientific freedom implications of the cryptography policy debate? Join democracy.net and the American Association for the Advancement of Science LIVE ONLINE Friday, August 1st for a live cybercast of a Briefing featuring members of Congress, human rights advocates, and encryption experts. Visit http://www.democracy.net/ for details. Date: Friday August 1, 1997 Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Eastern (9:00 am Pacific) Location: http://www.democracy.net/ What you will need: Web Browser RealAudio (available free at democracy.net) Telnet for Chat (also free at democracy.net) Cybercast Components: Live Audio, Live Still Pictures, Live Chat In addition, we will be testing live video through RealVideo during the cybercast. To check out the RealVideo test, you'll need to download a RealVideo player in advance, (recommended), visit http://www.real.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM OVERVIEW The encryption debate has revolved around issues of industrial competitiveness, personal privacy, and the interests of national security and law enforcement. This briefing seeks to bring two more issues into the policy discussion: scientific freedom to conduct and express cryptographic research, and human rights applications of cryptographic technologies. _________________________________________________________________________ FEATURED SPEAKERS * Matt Blaze, Principal Research Scientist, AT&T Laboratories * Ian Goldberg, Internet Security, Applications, Authentication and Cryptography Project, University of California, Berkeley * Patrick Ball, Science and Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science * Dinah PoKempner, Deputy General Counsel, Human Rights Watch Additional details on the program are available at the following sites: * http://www.democracy.net * http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/cstc/briefings/crypto/ Democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Voters Telecommunications Watch designed to explore ways of enhancing citizens participation in the democratic process via the Internet. This cybercast is made possible though the generous help and support of: WebActive - http://www.webactive.com/ Panix Internet - http://www.panix.com/ TheSync - http://www.thesync.com/ Digex - http://www.digex.net/ ___________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT DEMOCRACY.NET democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW) to explore ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet. To this end, democracy.net will host live, interactive cybercasts of Congressional Hearings and online town hall meetings with key policy makers. democracy.net is made possible through the generous support of WebActive, Public Access Networks (Panix), the Democracy Network, and DIGEX Internet. More information about the project and its sponsors can be found at http://www.democracy.net/about/ To receive democracy.net announcements automatically, please visit our signup form at http://www.democracy.net/ ___________________________________________________________________________ end update no.12 07/31/97 ===========================================================================