Key escrow encryption Bill hits congress

✍ Scribed by Wayne Madsen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Volume: 1997
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(97)89881-9

✦ Synopsis

After years of FBI Director Louis Freeh, White House operatives, and various National Security Agency (NSA) and Justice Department officials threats that failure by industry to voluntarily embrace government encryption key recovery schemes would result in mandatory programmes and legislation, such a forecast may have been realized.