Re: CRYPTOGRAPHY: POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS [ no surprises at this level. If anyone wants the tex

[Stephen D Crocker <>]

Actually, I did see a surprise at this level.


> Four potential scenarios are likely: mandatory escrowed encryption, voluntary
> escrowed encryption, complete decontrol of encryption, or domestic decontrol
> with strict export regulations.




In the U.S., domestic use of cryptography is not controlled.  It
hasn't been controlled, and there's been absolutely no discussion of
imposing controls, except, of course, as a hypothetical idea needed to
make sense of the Clipper proposal.  ("If there's no prohibition of
non-Clipper cryptography, how can Clipper be successful?")


Mandatory escrowed encryption is unlikely but hypothetically possible.


"Domestic decontrol" is not a potential scenario because there's no
control in place now.