The 1996 DOJ
draft bill to Congress to create a key recovery
infrastructure. The bill also allows access to keys in
many circumstances without a warrant and criminalizes
the use of crypto in a crime.
S. 974, the Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of
1995.
Senator Grassley's
Floor Statement on S. 974.
Brief
EPIC
overview of cryptography provisions of S. 974.
CAUTION
Documents obtained
by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act demonstrate
conclusively that the Bureau believes that Clipper-type
encryption must be mandated within the United States
I
principal architect of both the Digital Telephony
legislation and the Clipper Chip initiative, the Bureau has
worked closely with the National Security Agency to inhibit
the development of truly secure and private communications
systems