[Moderator's note: there are messages still in the queue that will go out later today, but I felt this had to go out ASAP --Perry]

From the New York Times, word that the Obama administration wants to compel access to encrypted communications.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html Excerpt: U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: September 27, 2010 WASHINGTON b Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is b going darkb as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications b including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct b peer to peerb messaging like Skype b to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE