Frank Sudia's bio says that he is a programmer, a lawyer, a public policy analyst, and a co-founder of the CertCo encryption company, formerly part of Bankers Trust. He is also the creator of the "Bankers Trust Corporate Key Escrow System." His paper (see the link below) is a suggestion for a route for Congress to take if they "decided to require all encryption systems to be readable by authorized legal authorities." -Declan ********** From: "Frank Sudia" <fsudia@home.com> Saturday: September 15, 2001 02:14 AM To: <info@security-policy.org> <mailbox@gregg.senate.gov> "Dorothy Denning" <denning@cs.cosc.georgetown.edu> "Stewart Baker" <SBaker@steptoe.com> Subject: Encryption and the Restoration of National Sovereignty Dear Policy Professional, In response to the Attack on America, I have drawn upon my extensive work in secure banking systems, key escrow systems, and patent licensing to bring you the following white paper (about 10 pages of text). Frank W. Sudia, JD, "Encryption and the Restoration of National Sovereignty: Proposal for an Escrow Patent Pool Corporation," September 14, 2001. http://www.sudialab.com/sov-eppc.htm. While at Bankers Trust (1991-98) I designed one of the largest encryption systems in the world, the Global Trust Organization. Chartered in 1999 as Identrus LLC (www.identrus.com) it now includes 50 of the world's largest banks. In my view, encryption policy options are poorly understood. The power of government to protect the nation should not be in doubt, yet the debate has been skewed by the claims of opponents that such systems will not or cannot work. In reality, it would be straightforward to build a system that is much more secure than the current banking system. However, this has not been done, and cannot be done, because complex patent problems must be resolved. Before anything serious and believable can ever be built, even on a test basis, we must aggregate the required patents into product pools, using government money and eminent domain powers, if necessary. And we must fund the development of prototypes. Only after viability has been established can the commercial sector move forward with products that are highly secure and credible. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are a contact or friend of mine, I would appreciate comments, which will be acknowledged in any future version. Regards, Frank Sudia www.SudiaLab.com 415-648-7415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----