IP: Interesting re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

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

> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:07:15 -0400
> To: Lucky Green <shamrock () cypherpunks to>
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
>
> Lucky, actually not everyone missed it. It's our top story on Wired News
> this morning.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html
>  Decoding the Crypto Policy Change
>  3:00 a.m. Why did the White House suddenly change its mind on
>  regulating encryption? It couldn't be because the NSA has
>  changed its spying agenda. Or could it? A Wired News
>  perspective by Declan McCullagh.
>
> -Declan
>
>
> At 23:07 9/16/1999 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> > less operationally savvy. No, what I find interesting is that so far
> > everybody missed the one paragraph in the announcement that actually offered
> > new information about the USG's insidious objectives. [...]
> >
> > "  Protect sensitive investigative techniques and industry trade secrets
> >   from unnecessary disclosure in litigation or criminal trials involving
> >   encryption, consistent with fully protecting defendants' rights to a
> >   fair trial."
> >
> > Having just read the proposed bill, what this paragraph refers to is that
> > under the proposed bill, LE will be able to enter evidence gathered by means
> > of factory-installed backdoors, intrusion, and other means without needing
> > to disclose to the defense or the Jury how this evidence was obtained. All