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Date: 1999-07-30
US-Krypto/export: Steuernachlass für Programme mit Hintertuer-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- US-Krypto/export: Steuernachlass für Programme mit Hintertuer Weil das Vorhaben, den Export starker Kryptographie überhaupt zu verbieten, am Widerstand der Industrie gescheitert ist, versucht es eine Gruppe von Kongress/abgeordneten jetzt auf die ganz dämliche Art: "sozial verantwortliche" Hersteller von Verschlüsselungsprogrammen, deren Exportversionen mit Hintertüren für US-Geheimdienste versehen sind, sollen 15 Prozent Steuernachlass erhalten. Nicht beantwortet wird die Frage, ob irgendwer diese Programme kaufen will. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 3:00 a.m. 30.Jul.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- If anyone in Washington qualifies as an ardent foe of encryption, it's congressman Porter Goss (R-Florida). Two years ago, the chairman of the House Intelligence committee tried to make it a crime to distribute privacy- protecting software, such as PGP or recent versions of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. The plan failed, but Goss didn't give up. On Wednesday, he and the panel's ranking Democrat introduced a bill to jump- start the US market for encryption products with backdoors that would support government surveillance. .... The "Tax Relief for Responsible Encryption Act" gives companies a 15 percent tax break on the costs of developing government-snoopable encryption products. Such products might support key recovery -- in which a copy of the secret key needed to unlock scrambled data is placed within reach of law enforcement -- or "other techniques." "This legislation offers a way out of the stalemate between those who view commerce and national security as an 'either- or' proposition," Goss said in a statement. Goss and 22 other House members also sent a letter to President Clinton asking him to organize a "summit" of industry executives and government officials to extract an agreement on encryption regulation. "It has become evident that your leadership on this issue is vital to resolve the equally legitimate interests of law enforcement, national security, privacy, and industry.... We believe that without your personal involvement on this issue now, our national security and public safety will suffer serious and needless consequences," the legislators said. ... "I think the government's role is to protect the individual liberties of its citizens -- they should be giving companies incentives to strengthen encryption," said Jennifer DePalma, a graduate fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. .... The committee members have abandoned their hope for a ban on unapproved encryption software, a source said. The administration has pushed for a key recovery scheme, whereby law enforcement would gain access to "plaintext," or unencrypted, information. .... "The congressman does not want to mandate recovery of encryption products. He wants to encourage products that have societal benefits," a spokesman for Goss said. The committee last week said in a report that a bill to roll back some export restrictions on encryption products would harm children while protecting "criminals and international thugs." "Child pornographers could distribute their filth unimpeded," the report said. .... full story http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21014.html relayed by Declan McCullagh declan@well.com -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-07-30 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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