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: * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington : * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those : * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in : * response to a question. : * : * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. : * : * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any : * cryptographic device that did not provide government access. : * : * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds : * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels : * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress. : * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations : * over the telephone and other communications devices will become : * indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue, : * jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country." Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War. It's official: * http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif * * SECRET FBI report * * NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY * * A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures * that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be * crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored * with real-time decryption. * * All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited. The U.S. asked the OECD to agree to internationally required Key Recovery. * What Is The OECD * * The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in * Paris, France, is a unique forum permitting governments of the * industrialized democracies to study and formulate the |
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