------- Forwarded Message Message-Id: <9302130952.AA06229@toad.com> To: "Vinton G. Cerf" <vcerf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Subject: Re: Technology Policy and Information Infrastructure Date: Sat, 13 Feb 93 01:52:35 -0800 From: gnu@toad.com Vint, if your testimony will touch on "technology policy" as it relates to cryptograpy policy, then here are a few more "sound bits": * Privacy and authenticity technologies are key to reliable and trustworthy social and business interactions over networks. * Current government policies actively prohibit and inhibit the research, design, manufacturing, sale, and use of these technologies. * Taxpayers have been investing many billions of dollars per year in these technologies, in the NSA "black budget", but have seen no return on this investment. * Current "cold war" policy should be turned on its head. Privacy is one of the fundamental rights from which the Bill of Rights was derived. Government policy should encourage privacy technologies. Government controls on cryptography should be completely removed. * The taxpayer investment in privacy technologies should be returned to the taxpayers by declassifying NSA research and encouraging its widespread deployment to protect domestic civilian communications. ------- End of Forwarded Message