------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Fri, 31 May 96 18:12:00 EST From: "CRYPTO" <crypto@nas.edu> To: crypto@nas.edu Subject: Public briefing on the NRC Crypto Policy report Please post widely. The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) has completed a congressionally mandated study of national cryptography policy. The final report, Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society, was released to the public on May 30, 1996. Some members of the committee will conduct a public briefing on the report in Menlo Park, California at SRI International. The briefing will be held in the Auditorium of the International Building from 10 to 11 am on Wednesday, June.5. The address is 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California, 94025. For more information about the briefing at SRI, contact Alice Galloway at 415-859-2711 (alice_galloway@qm.sri.com). If you have suggestions about other places that the committee should offer a public briefing, please let me know (crypto@nas.edu or 202-334-2605). A summary of the report ("Overview and Recommendations") is available through http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb; the full publication will be made available when final printed copies of the book are available (probably around the beginning of August). If you wish to be kept informed of various other public activities regarding dissemination of this report, you can sign up for an e-mail list by visiting the web page http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/notifyme.html. I apologize to you for the short notice on this invitation, but hope that you will be able to attend. Herb Lin Senior Staff Officer Study Director CSTB/NRC Study of National Cryptography Policy crypto@nas.edu ------- End of forwarded message -------