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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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