Responding to msg by futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex) on Wed, 13 Sep 2:11 AM

Your paraphrase of Nelson's statement strikes me as remarkable. Doesn't "we are not concerned with bad people using crypto among themselves" run completely counter to all the hyperbole about terrorists planning OKC II with PGP ? Does anyone have an exact quotation ? At any rate, sign me up as a "bad person"....

"Bad people" is my euphemism for Mr. Nelson's "terrorist" -- which brought snorts from the audience. Yes, his statement about not being concerned with crypto use among terrorists was surprising. On a verbatim transcript: Mr. Ed Roback of NIST, the KE meet director, said that a complete transcript of the proceedings will not be published, only a summary report at some point, and then, after the September 15 session, some version will appear in the Federal Register for public comment. The summary report should appear eventually at the NIST web site -- the CSSPAB site has reports for prior KE sessions in the annual reports. See <http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/csspab/94-rpt.txt> for 1994, and similar for earlier years, on key escrow documents. To amplify what Tim said, the CSSPAB site has very interesting docs.