A Question for the Community regarding National...

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 94 10:28:00 EST
From: "Herb Lin" <hlin@nas.edu>
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To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu


A Question for the Community regarding National Cryptography Policy
  Dave -- for IP.  thanks.


  As many of you know, the National Research Council is undertaking a study
  of  national  cryptography  policy  (description  available on request to
  CRYPTO@NAS.EDU).   This  note  is the first of a number of questions that
  will  be posted to the Internet community in our attempt to solicit input
  on a broad scale.  Please circulate this request to anyone that you think
  might be able to contribute.


  The question of this posting is the following:


  How, if at all, do capabilities enabled by new and emerging technology in
  telecommunications  (e.g.,  key-escrow  encryption  technologies, digital
  telephony)  and  electronic  networking  make  it  _easier_ for those who
  control  that  technology  to  compromise and/or protect the interests of
  individual  end users?  Please use as the standard of comparison the ease
  _today_ of compromising or protecting these interests.  We are interested
  in  scenarios  in which these interests might be compromised or protected
  both  individually  and  on a large scale.  Please be sure to tell us the
  interests you believe are at stake.


  Please send your comments on this question to
CRYPTO@NAS.EDU. [ any answers you would like included in a
summary message to IP (attributed or not) send me a copy.
djf  (farber@cis.upenn.edu)