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EFFector Online Volume 6 No. 3.01    10/20/1993      editors@eff.org

A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation   ISSN 1062-9424

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                        In This Issue:

EFF Changes: New Editor, Suns Move to DC!

EFF Elects Two New Members to Its Board of Directors

Notes from House Hearing on Cryptography Export Controls

Administration Expands FOIA Rights

UK Cryptoprivacy Association Meeting

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EFF Changes: New Editor, Suns Move to DC!

EFFector Online is now produced by Stanton "Mechanism" McCandlish, EFF's

Online Activist, mech@eff.org.  Besides UseNet ubiquity, Stanton has been

active in the BBS scene for some time, particularly in FidoNet, and is

the founder of IndraNet.  Mech hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is

finding EFF and Washington DC to be a fascinating change of pace and

Some new formatting: All articles are separated by the -==-==-==... line you 

quickly.

General comments about EFFector, EFF, and the issues raised should be

Other important addresses, one of which is new:

 eff@eff.org - to get on mailing lists, and other tech stuff.

 ask@eff.org - to ask questions about EFF or the issues we are involved in.

EFF's Sun Microsystems SPARCstations finally have been moved down to our

offices in DC.  Chris Davis and Helen Rose-Davis, EFF's former Systems

Administrators, journeyed with the machines and, with the help of new

Systems Administrator Dan Brown (brown@eff.org), had them up and running

their talents.  We thank them for all they've done for us and wish them the

best of luck.

Note that EFF *is* still reachable at eff.org, the ftp site is still

ftp.eff.org, the gopher site is still gopher.eff.org, wais is wais.eff.org,

as always.  However, kragar.eff.org may not be a valid host domain name much

longer, so avoid using it and use ftp.eff.org instead.  

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EFF Elects Two New Members to Its Board of Directors

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the election of

two individuals to its Board of Directors:  David Johnson, a Washington,

D.C. attorney specializing in computer law, and Rob Glaser, a software

ndustry executive and multimedia pioneer.

David Johnson is counsel in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer,

Cutler & Pickering where his areas of practice include software and

law.   He also serves as President and CEO of Counsel Connect, an

electronic mail and conferencing system that connects corporate counsel

and outside law firms, and has been instrumental in encouraging the use of

nformation technology in the legal profession.  Johnson serves on the

Board of Directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction

(CALI) and is a Trustee of the National Center for Automated Information

Research (NCAIR). 

"EFF has provided unique leadership by helping everyone involved in

building and using the new electronic networks to understand the

mportance of preserving core democratic values in this new medium," said

Johnson.  "The founders of EFF have pushed vigorously for networks that

am excited to have a chance to participate in EFF's continuing discussion

of these vital questions."

Rob Glaser is presently a consultant to Microsoft Corporation. He most

Consumer Systems, where he led Microsoft's development of multimedia

technology and the company's strategy for entering the emerging market for

consumer digital appliances. Prior to that, Glaser held positions at 

Microsoft related to the development and marketing of networking systems

Research, a PC software startup company. Glaser also is a minority owner of

the Seattle Mariners baseball team, and serves on the board of the Target

Margin Theater Company of New York, and Dwight Hall, the umbrella

organization for Yale University student social and political activism.

"I'm honored and excited to be joining the board," said Glaser about his

nvolvement in EFF.  "In its brief history EFF has established itself as

the leading organization working to ensure that the Electronic Frontier is

organized and run in accordance with fundamental American principles of

openness, democracy, and social justice. I hope to help EFF extend its

Johnson and Glaser join with other members of the Foundation's Board of

Directors, including EFF co-founders Mitchell Kapor and John Perry

Barlow, Jerry Berman, John Gilmore, Stewart Brand, Esther Dyson, and David

Farber.

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Notes from House Hearing on Cryptography Export Controls

by Danny Weitzner, EFF Senior Staff Counsel

October 12, 1993

House Foreign Affairs Committee

Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and the Enviornment

Hearing on mass market cryptography and export controls

Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.), Chair

Committee Members present:

Gejdenson, Cantwell (D-Wash.), Fingerhut (D-Ohio), Rohrbacher (R-Calif.)

Manzullo (R-Ill.) 

Witnesses:

J. Hendren, Arkansas Systems (A data security firm that does a lot of

nternational banking work)

Ray Ozzie, IRIS Associates for Business Software Alliance (Lotus Notes

Stephen Walker, Trusted Information Systems for Software Publishers Association

Don Harbert, Digital Eqiupment Corp.

NSA representative

Opening Statement of Gejdenson: 

"This hearing is about the well intentioned attempts of the National

Security Agency to try to control the uncontrollable....  The NSA itself

acknowledges that if you have a long distance telephone line and a modem,

you can send this software anywhere in the world.  If you have a computer

and a modem you can take this software off of the Internet anywhere in the

National Security Agency.  But once it is determined that the dispersion of

this software cannot be controlled, then however much we might want to

 Just as in the case of telecommunications, the National Security Agency is

attempting to put the genie back in the bottle.  It won't happen; and a

vibrant and productive sector of American indsutry may be sacrificed in the

The main points raised by witnesses were these:

manufacturers:

-Ray Ozzie used his laptop and a modem to show how to get a DES

mplementation from ftp.germany.eu.net.  The committee loved it and most of

them seemed to understand what was going on on the screen, even though they

-Stephen Walker described the results of an SPA study which uncovered over

-Phil Zimmermann testified that he designed PGP from publicly available

nformation.

Surprisingly enough, this is a contentious issue.  Some members of the

committee seemed to have been told by someone or another that foreign

versions of DES may not be as strong as those that are made in the USA.  If

this were true, then export controls might still be justified despite the

numerous foreign versions of DES on the market.  In my view, this is a

-Steve Walker demonstrated that all DES works the same way by encrypting a

DES packages, and then decrypting them.  Surprise!  They all sounded just

the same.

-Don Harbert from DEC told of loses of over $70 Million in just the last

few months.

-BSA estimates that export controls exclude access to a global market the

s $6-9 Billion.

-Phil Zimmermann told the committee about his experience with PGP users and

environments

Committee Responses:

Overall, the committee was quite sympathetic to the witnesses.  Chairman

Gejdenson seemed very supportive of changing export controls.  Rep. Dana

Rohrbacher, no flaming liberal, said, "the cold war is over.  I sympathize

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Administration Expands FOIA Rights

commitment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to its underlying

Attorney General Janet Reno specified some changes the Administration will

be making in its enforcement of FOIA.  First, the Department of Justice

for withholding information.  Instead, agencies will be encouraged to

"In short, it shall be the policy of the U.S. Department of Justice to

agency reasonably foresees that disclosure would be harmful to an interest

Attorney General Reno also announced that the Department of Justice would

be reviewing regulations implementing FOIA and forms used in the process. 

DoJ will also strive to reduce the current FOIA backlogs over the coming

year.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was especially pleased that

electronic information systems."  EFF believes that electronic access to

nformation is critical, and EFF has been working with Congress (through

other legislation) and members of the Administration to ensure that

electronically stored information is as easily obtainable as printed

encouraged that the Clinton Administration has recognized the importance of

this method of information dissemination.  In this electronic era, it is

critical that information be made available in a format that is most useful

to citizens as they inquire about the activities of their government."

After over a decade of government whittling away at citizen access to

applaud the Clinton Administration for taking this first step toward

"and we are hopeful that the Administration will take further steps in this

electronically."

A copy of the Administration's memorandum is available for anonymous ftp at

/pub/EFF/legislation/freedom-info-act-10.4.93 on ftp.eff.org.

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UK Cryptoprivacy Association Meeting

Date:  Sunday, 31 October 1993

Time:  1430

At the offices of:

   FOREST

   4th floor

   2 Grosvenor Gardens

   London   SW1W 0DH

[ FOREST is located at the corner of Grosvenor Gardens and Hobart

  Place, a couple of blocks west of Victoria Station. There is a 

  taxi shelter across the street from the office. Those who have 

  trouble finding this location can page Russell Whitaker on  

  081-812-2661, and stand by the payphone or cellphone for a callback. ]

The UK Cryptoprivacy Association has its roots in the U.S. cypherpunk 

advocacy of strong personal cryptography.  The next UKCA meeting, to be 

    - The recent well-publicised discovery of a larger number of U.S. 

        National Security Agency (NSA) electronic listening posts 

        than had been previously suspected;

    - Further news on the spread of freely-available public key 

        cryptography software in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the 

        Transcaucasian states;

    - The status of the various UK and Moscow PGP public key servers and 

        software archive sites, with input from a couple of maintainers 

        of these services in the UK;

    - The implications of the legal controversy surrounding the 

        development and distribution of PGP encryption software in the 

        U.S., with further discussion on the possibility of volunteer 

        contributions to Phil Zimmermann's legal defence fund;

    - Introduction to public key cryptography for novices

Attendees are encouraged to bring and exchange diskettes with their 

their newly appended signatures, to the PGP Key Server at Demon 

Zimmermann's "Pretty Good Privacy") public key encryption software can 

be obtained by ftp from, among other places, ftp.demon.co.uk in the 

MS-DOS, Archimedes, and MacOS.  Full source code is available.

This meeting will also feature discussion on the upcoming First European 

Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (ECFP '93) to be held on 

David Chaum, and Duncan Frissell, as well as a representative of the 

UK's Data Protection Registry.

Russell Earl Whitaker

ECFP Ventures Ltd

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