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[FYI] U.S. Crypto Debate
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- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:17:31 +0100
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Advocates square off in U.S.
encryption policy debate
May 24, 1999
Web posted at: 3:04 p.m. EDT (1904 GMT)
by Margret Johnston
From...
WASHINGTON (IDG) -- The battle over U.S. encryption
policy raged here again last week at a conference
where outspoken privacy protection advocates were
pitted against a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer
who defended current restrictions on the export of
strong encryption as an absolutely essential
component of law enforcement.
If the FBI and other U.S. law enforcement agencies
lose the ability to break into the computer systems
of criminal suspects, they will have to operate
without one of their most effective tools, said
Philip R. Reitinger, senior counsel of the computer
crime and intellectual property section in the
Justice Department.
[...]
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