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[FYI] US CRYPTO POLICY: EXPLAINING THE INEXPLICABLE
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9 January 1999
To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Seminar that may be of interest to some list members
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 12:54:48 +0000
From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
SECURITY SEMINAR SERIES
SPEAKER: Susan Landau, University of Massachussetts
DATE: Tuesday 12th January at 4.15pm
PLACE: Room TP4, Computer Laboratory
TITLE: US CRYPTO POLICY: EXPLAINING THE INEXPLICABLE
The richest, strongest, most electronically-vulnerable nation on earth
persists in a policy that effectively restricts the use of encryption
technology domestically as well as abroad. Even while the security of
transactions over telephone and computer networks has become a source
of wide public concern, the US government continues to work against
the proliferation of unbreakable cryptography (and thus perfectly
concealable communications).
In this talk we present a brief history of wiretap law and privacy
rulings in the United States, and we put current crypto policy in the
context of decisions made over the last twenty years.
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Our security seminars are open to the public. Maps and travelling
directions are at <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/site-maps/site-maps.html>
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