Cerf calls for "international cryptography standard"

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> Subject: E-d-u-p-a-g-e 03/29/94
> INTERNET STILL VULNERABLE
> Testimony at a House Subcommittee on Science indicates that threats to
> Internet security should be viewed as on-going rather than isolated events.
> Internet Society President Vinton Cerf says that development and use of an
> international encryption standard is the only reliable solution to the
> problem. (Chronicle of Higher Education 3/30/94 A22) 

He's right, but I'd like to think he doesn't have Clipper/Capstone in mind.

Oh, I'll throw this in too:
> SOFTWARE REPLACES SPORTSWRITERS
> A $100 software program called Sportswriter is capable of churning out
> reasonably good sports copy by intelligently stringing together words
> between facts. Some 80 small newspapers in the Midwest have purchased the
> program and are using it to cover high school sports events. (Wall Street
> Journal 3/29/94 A1)

   Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu
         finger for PGP key.

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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu> writes:

    >> ...
    >> Cerf says that development and use of an international
    >> encryption standard is the only reliable solution to the
    >> problem. (Chronicle of Higher Education 3/30/94 A22)

    Eli> He's right, but I'd like to think he doesn't have
    Eli> Clipper/Capstone in mind.


He doesn't. I was at the hearings, and both Vint and Steve Crocker
from TIS were clear that the U.S. Gov't needed to lighten up, or we'd
take it in the pants from a competitive perspective, amongst other
things. 


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