NRC Cryptography Report: The Text of the Recommendations
Jeff Barber
jeffb at sware.com
Fri May 31 11:56:40 PDT 1996
Hal writes:
[ Good critique of NRC crypto report ]
I completely agree. The *best* that could be said of this report is
"56 bits instead of 40". B.F.D. And aside from that one concession,
it's a step backward.
BTW, does it seem to anyone else that recommendation 1 "no law should
bar the .... use of ... encryption within the United States" is
contradicted by recommendation 5.4: "Congress should seriously consider
legislation that would impose criminal penalties on the use of encrypted
communications in interstate commerce with the intent to commit a
federal crime"? Maybe they meant to say "no law except those we
propose below" :-(.
-- Jeff
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