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2000 CIS H 52160

TITLE: Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act

CIS-NO: 2000-H521-60
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 4, 1999
LENGTH: iv+169 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1020-A; 1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/34
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-14867
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 34. Hearing before the Subcom on Courts and Intellectual Property to consider H.R. 850 (text, p. 1-6), the Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, to amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to liberalize export controls on software with encryption capabilities used to protect the security of computer network data, and affirm the right of U.S. persons to use and sell encryption.

Supplementary material (p. 13-14, 19-36, 140-154) includes an article, submitted statements, correspondence, and:
   -- "Relaxing in Europe" concerning European encryption export controls, National Journal's Technology Daily, Mar. 1, 1999 (p. 140-153).

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; EUROPE; EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

00-H521-60 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Mar. 4, 1999 p. 37-69

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   REINSCH, WILLIAM A. (Under Secretary, Export Administration, Department of Commerce)
   MCNAMARA, BARBARA A. (Deputy Director, NSA)
   LEE, RONALD D. (Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Overview of Administration encryption policy, with concerns about H.R. 850; opposition to H.R. 850, citing national security and public safety concerns; elaboration on encryption export controls and related issues.

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

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

00-H521-60 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Mar. 4, 1999 p. 71-139, 155-169

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   PARENTY, THOMAS (Director, Data and Communications Security, Sybase, Inc.; representing Business Software Alliance)
   MCLAUGHLIN, CRAIG (Chief Technology Officer, Privada, Inc.; representing Software & Information Industry Association)
   NORQUIST, GROVER G. (President, Americans for Tax Reform)
   DENNING, DOROTHY E. (Professor, Computer Science, Georgetown University)
   DAVIDSON, ALAN (Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT))
   GILLESPIE, ED (Executive Director, Americans for Computer Privacy)
   MCCURDY, DAVE (President, Electronic Industries Alliance)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Support for H.R. 850, citing need to ease U.S. restrictions on cryptography; criticism of Administration encryption policy; opposing views on H.R. 850; elaboration on encryption export control policy.

INSERTION:
   -- Abelson, Harold (et al.), "Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, & Trusted Third Party Encryption" CDT report, June 1998 (p. 102-130).

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

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   BUSINESS SOFTWARE ALLIANCE

LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001