RE: NPR story on crypto...

1999-06-25 Thread Rodger, William
At 06:34 PM 6/24/99 -0400, David Lesher wrote: >NPR's ATC has a story at the end of their first segment; i.e. 4:25 >Eastern. I missed most of it but it was about some aspect of >Osama bin Laden's group being arrested. Mention was made of >encrypted files, and the inference that they were cracked.

Crowell says export crypto, not jobs; was: NPR story on crypto...

1999-06-28 Thread Rodger, William
> At 01:14 PM 6/26/99 -0700, Sameer Parekh wrote: > >> What's intriguing is whether PECSENC, now headed by an ex-NSA > >> honcho, is going to bite NSA's sigint bullet Vin McLellan responded: > Unfortunately, the new chair of PECSENC is William P. Crowell, who > became President of Cylink about

RE: US export restrictions - a travellers guide ?

1999-07-06 Thread Rodger, William
Frank Andrew Stevenson wrote: > > Tomorrow I leave Oslo for the US, where among other things will attend DEFCON 7. For this occasion I have prepared a 'black disk' containing ssh executables that will allow me to communicate with my home network. > > Today I called the US embassy in Oslo to fi

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Rodger, William
Lucky wrote: > What I found most interesting about today's announcement was not that it > was > largely content-free with respect to crypto export regulations and the > fifth > or sixth such content-free "crypto deregulation" announcement that I can > remember causing the exact same pred

RE: draft regulations?

1999-11-24 Thread Rodger, William
Based on a conversation I had with Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch last night, as well as other crypto-savvy attorneys, I think it's probably more useful to look at the first page of the draft. Open Source code, believe it or not, would be essentially decontrolled by this proposal. The d

RE: draft regulations?

1999-11-29 Thread Rodger, William
> -Original Message- > From: John Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 3:55 PM > To: Rodger, William > Cc: William Allen Simpson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: draft regulations? > I wrote: > > Open Sou

Council of Europe April 27 press release re: Cybercrime treaty

2000-05-03 Thread Rodger, William
The treaty proposal: http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm Subject: Press release n° 300(a)00 - Crime in Cyberspace Crime in Cyberspace First Draft of International Convention Released for Public Discussion STRASBOURG, 27.04.2000 - The COUNCIL OF EUROPE today released a

RE: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES

2000-05-17 Thread Rodger, William
John wrote: > There have been allegations that NSA influenced Microsoft's encryption > support (one reason that NSA could afford to relax export controls > could be that they've already subverted the highest volume US > products). John Glimore wrote: > > There have been allegations that NSA inf

RE: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-12 Thread Rodger, William
Meyer wrote: > > I guess this explains the FBI's opposition to the Verio > merger. I wonder > if a colocation company or service provider could be forced > to disclose > its participation in the Carnivore project. Not unless compelled by the government. > There's been speculation about NSA

RE: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-13 Thread Rodger, William
Jeffrey Schiller asked: > > I wonder how we find out more (FOIA), the descriptions I have heard so > far (its a sniffer) seems a bit onerous. Big Brother at his best! At least one group I know of has filed a FOIA for details. Perhaps we'll get information in a few weeks. Or maybe they will just