IP: Declassified crypto-hearing transcript now online

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

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:10:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>


I FedEx'ed John Young a copy of the declassified crypto-transcript that I
wrote about a few days ago. He's scanned it in and put it online at: 


   http://site108240.primehost.com/hir-hear.htm  (97K hearing transcript)


I included a letter sent to Congress by Janet Reno, and signed by a bevy
of Federal drug-cops, including the heads of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, BATF, Secret Service, Customs, and the Office of National
Drug Control Policy. This apparently is the administration's latest
argument: key recovery is needed to fight the war on drugs... 


   http://site108240.primehost.com/crypto-law8.htm  (11K Reno letter)


-Declan


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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:02:12 -0400
From: John Young <jya () pipeline com>
Subject: Crypto Hearing Transcript


Thanks to Declan we've digitized the declassified 64-page
transcript of the House International Relations Committee closed
hearing on the SAFE bill, dated July 21, 1997, at which
FBI's Freeh, NSA's Crowell and BXA's Reinsch made statements
on crypto policy, described the administration's dreams for
worldwide GAK and noddled about how to shame unpatriotic
industries -- Microsoft is cited as a prime disobedient, while
Netscape, Reinsch smarms, has joined up.


This is Rep. Gilman's committee, and the discussion aptly
outlines the grounds for his "first amendment" to SAFE recently
reported in the news.


Our Web site is kaput this morning so for now we can only
offer the 99K file by e-mail, HTML formatted.


If you want a copy send us e-mail with the subject: HIR_hear


We'll include a parallel 18 July letter to Members of Congress
on the same topic from AG Reno and seven top federal law
enforcers, also provided by Well-connected Declan.




If your mail can't handle a 99K file, someday, maybe this weekend,
the two docs will be on our site at, respectively:


   http://jya.com/hir-hear.htm


   http://jya.com/crypto-law8.htm


Coda: Gilman represents, if you didn't know, my rathole
of the U.S. financial market. The transcript shows that he loved
the G-men, wink-winked at them throughout the hearing, eyeing
the propects for helpful legislation.


Reinsch brags that BXA and the banks are preparing an onslaught
on the undisciplined world market, working with world leaders, as
ever, caching real-time gold for select wise marketers, bribing with
gov-biz deals across the political spectrum. Sez all the industry holdouts
on GAK will come around when they see the Big Corps caving.
Reinsch asserted that Microsoft is power behind Goodlatte's bill.
Goodlatte didn't deny, just said MS is one of a horde. Hmm.