I don't remember if I forwarded this to Firewalls already or not.
Apologies for the duplication if I have, apologies for the delay if I
haven't.
-Brent
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 16:14:01 EST
Subject: New GAO report on Communications Privacy
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Brent,
I do not know if you received this so I will resend it:
GAO recently issued a report "Communications Privacy:
Federal Policy and Actions", GAO/OSI-94-2, dated
November 4, 1993, that may be of interest to members
of your group. The report focused on the following issues:
--The need for information privacy in computer and
communications systems--through such means as
encryption, or conversion of clear text to an
unreadable form--to mitigate the threat of economic
espionage to U.S. industry;
--federal agency authority to develop cryptographic
standards for the protection of sensitive,
unclassified information and the actions and policies
of the National Security Agency (NSA), Department of
Defense, and of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NI ST), Department of Commerce,
regarding the selection of federal cryptographic
standards;
--roles, actions, and policies of NSA and the
Department of State related to export controls for
products with encryption capabilities and industry
rationale for requesting liberalization of such
controls; and
--the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI)
legislative proposal regarding telephone systems that
use digital communications technology.
I have placed an electronic version of the report named
OSI-94-2.TXT in the GAO-REPORTS anonymous FTP directory at
NIH (ftp.cu.nih.gov).
Joe Sokalski, GAO--Los Angeles
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