I called the phone number for NIST given in one of the announcements, and was routed to Sherry Hankey 1-301-975-2820, who faxed me their package of information they're sending out. There's no new technical information (Dorothy Denning's article and some non-technical viewgraphs), but there's a lot of newspaper clippings, pro and con, the announcements we've seen on the net from Clinton, Q&A, etc., and what look like viewgraphs from a couple of talks. Overall, it looks like they don't know much more than we do :-). One talk is "U.S. Technology Initiative for Secure Telecommunications" Raymond G. Kammer, Acting Director, NIST, 4/16/93 which is basically the announcements turned into viewgraphs (if I've sucessfully decoded the tangle of fax paper :-). Another part of the package looks like another talk, which covers Wiretap cases by the FBI and other agencies, including a summary table for 1982-1991 of State and Federal wiretap authorizations, arrests, and convictions (there's a footnote that reporting of convictions seems to substantially lag actual convictions, though the ration of arrests to convictions has decreased, averaging 2:1 over 10 years, 3:1 recently.) Most wiretaps are State and local, not FBI. Cases they cited included the usual drug dealing and money laundering, a judge taking bribes, a Chicago street gang El Rukn proposing to shoot down an airliner for the Libyans, some Mafiosi, a RICO case against the Concrete and Cement Workers Union "Prevented economic loss $585Mil", some fraud in defense contracting and health care contracting, and the Masters of Disaster "computer hackers" case. Bill Stewart wcs@anchor.att.com # Bill Stewart wcs@anchor.ho.att.com +1-908-949-0705 Fax-4876 # AT&T Bell Labs, Room 4M-312, Crawfords Corner Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030