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2000 CIS H 2015

TITLE: U.S. Encryption Policy

CIS-NO: 2000-H201-5
SOURCE: Committee on Armed Services. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DATE: July 1, 13, 1999
LENGTH: iv+195 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1012-C-01; 1012-D-01
SUDOC: Y4.AR5/2A:999-2000/16
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-9139
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial H.A.S.C. No. 106-16. Hearing to consider H.R. 850, the Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, to:
   a. Liberalize export controls on software with encryption capabilities used to protect the security of computer network data.
   b. Affirm the right of U.S. persons to use and sell encryption technologies for legitimate business and personal use.
   c. Prohibit the Government from mandating the use of key recovery technologies to enable law enforcement officials to access data secured by encryption technologies.

Classified material has been deleted.

Supplementary material (p. 32-65, 123-195) includes witnesses' written statements and written replies to Committee questions.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Computer encryption technologies, export controls revision and domestic use affirmation

BILLS: 106 H.R. 850

DESCRIPTORS:
    SECURITY AND FREEDOM THROUGH ENCRYPTION ACT; EXPORT CONTROLS; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY; CRYPTOLOGY; MARKETING; GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS; LAW ENFORCEMENT

00-H201-5 TESTIMONY NO: 1     July 1, 1999 p. 3-31, 45-65

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   HAMRE, JOHN J. (Deputy Secretary, DOD)
   MCNAMARA, BARBARA A. (Deputy Director, NSA)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Objections to H.R. 850 based on national security concerns about increased export and availability of encryption technologies; feared adverse impact of H.R. 850 on NSA ability to acquire intelligence information; perspectives on encryption regulation, focusing on national security implications.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Computer encryption technologies, export controls revision and domestic use affirmation

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY; NATIONAL DEFENSE

00-H201-5 TESTIMONY NO: 2     July 13, 1999 p. 69-105, 132-175

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   RENO, JANET (Attorney General, Department of Justice)
   FREEH, LOUIS J. (Director, FBI)
   REINSCH, WILLIAM A. (Under Secretary, Export Administration, Department of Commerce)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Feared adverse impact on law enforcement of increased use of encryption technologies if H.R. 850 becomes law; concerns about criminal uses of encryption technologies; importance of key recovery technologies to enable law enforcement personnel to read encrypted messages.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Computer encryption technologies, export controls revision and domestic use affirmation

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

00-H201-5 TESTIMONY NO: 3     July 13, 1999 p. 105-122, 176-195

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   BOWCOCK, MATTHEW (Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Baltimore Technologies)
   KAUFMAN, ELIZABETH (Senior Director and General Manager, Security, Cisco Systems)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Need for policies to encourage open world markets for encryption products, with recommendations to revise H.R. 850; importance of and suggestions regarding business use of encryption technologies.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Computer encryption technologies, export controls revision and domestic use affirmation

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   BALTIMORE TECHNOLOGIES

LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001