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[FYI] U.S.: Senator calls for encryption crackdown
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- Subject: [FYI] U.S.: Senator calls for encryption crackdown
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:27:51 +0200
- CC: krypto@thur.de
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2812463-2,00.html
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Senator calls for encryption crackdown
By Wendy McAuliffe, ZDNet (UK)
September 14, 2001 11:33 AM PT
URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2812463,00.html?chkpt=z
dnnp1tp02
The horror of Tuesday's coordinated attacks on the commercial and
military centers of America has prompted the U.S. Congress to call
for a global ban on "uncrackable" encryption products.
[...]
Gregg is now proposing that U.S. government officials have access to
decryption tools when the case is deemed to be a matter of national
security. He said that the developers of encryption products "have as
much at risk as we have at risk as a nation, and they should
understand that as a matter of citizenship, they have an obligation"
to produce government decryption products. In order to safeguard the
privacy of innocent citizens, the interception of encrypted
communications would only take place with "court oversight."
[...]
But security experts fear that measures such as RIPA could lead to a
dangerous reliance on the gathering of electronic intelligence. "I
wonder how far additional bits of technology are going to help--there
has been too much reliance on people having magic boxes, and sitting
back in London or wherever, being able to voice their predictions of
what might happen. Many old-fashioned intelligence agencies such as
M16 are going to complain about resource cuts, and claim that they
now need more people on the streets," said Peter Sommer, encryption
expert based at the London School of Economics.
[...]
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