6.805/STS085: Samplings from the Crypto Debate -- 1997

• January 27, San Jose Mercury News (Dan Gillmor), Encryption poses classic Gordian knot

• June 10, Ron Rivest, Letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

• July 3, USACM and IEEE, Letter to Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee

• July 9, FBI Director Louis Freeh, Statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee

• July 9, Kenneth Dam (Chair of the NRC Study), Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee

• August 20, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, Encryption is vital to the Net

• September 3, Reuter, (Aaron Pressman), Senators call for mandatory US encryption controls

• September 4, Washington Post (Rajiv Chandrasekaran), Freeh Seeks Encryption Decoding Key

• September 4, Reuter, (Aaron Pressman), Clinton Administration Backs Away From FBI on Encryption

• September 6, New York Times (John Markoff), Law proposed to regulate encoding devices

• September 23, Letter to House Commerce Committee, from a group of law professors, opposing mandatory key escrow

• October 1, Senator John Ashcroft, Open letter to the Internet community

• October 9, New York Times (Edmund L. Andrews), Europeans Reject U.S. Plan On Electronic Cryptography

• October 21, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Statement before the Senate on the encryption debate.

Last modified: October 24 1997, 8:12 PM