ACM Press Conf. to Release Clipper Paper & Recomm. 6/30/94 [one hopes they make it available online

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

CLIPPER REPORT RELEASE ON THURSDAY


ACM TO MAKE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS


        A press conference will be held at the U.S. Capitol on
Thursday, June 30 at 10:30 am to announce the release of a new study
on the controversial Clipper cryptography proposal.


The ACM cryptography panel was chaired by Dr. Stephen Kent, Chief
Scientist for Security Technology with the firm of Bolt Beranek and
Newman.  Dr. Susan Landau, Research Associate Professor in Computer
Science at the University of Massachusetts, co-ordinated the work of
the panel and did most of the writing. The panel members were:


Dr. Clinton Brooks, Advisor to the Director, National Security Agency
Scott Charney, Chief of the Computer Crime Unit,Criminal Division,
  U.S. Department of Justice
Dr. Dorothy Denning, Computer Science Chair, Georgetown University
Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Dr. Anthony Lauck, Corporate Consulting Engineer,
  Digital Equipment Corporation
Douglas Miller, Government Affairs Manager,
  Software Publishers Association
Dr. Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist, SRI International
David Sobel, Legal Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center.


        The final report of the panel will be made public at the
Thursday press conference.  Also, the policy committee of the 85,000
member ACM will release a statement on cryptography issues facing the
Clinton administration.


        For more information, call (202) 298-0842.


        Cryptography report announcement.  10:30 am, Thursday, June
30, United States Capitol building, room SC-5.