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Many companies that conduct their business over the Internet use data encryption to keep intruders from accessing their systems. High-tech companies want to export stronger encryption products, but the Clinton administration is reluctant to ease export controls because it would hinder law enforcement and intelligence gathering.

On April 16, 1993 the White House announced the Escrowed Encryption Initiative, 'a voluntary program to improve security and privacy of telephone communications while meeting the legitimate needs of law […]

Protector of passwords The firm's boss may have to choose between his principles and his liberty MARTIN LUTHER pinned his treatise to a church door. Tim Cook posted his on [...]

Byline: M. E. Kabay Professor Ric Steinberger, CISSP is one of the most frequent and highly respected instructors in the Norwich University Master of Science program in Information Assurance (MSIA). [...]

An Indian government official said his country may use third-party tools to crack the encryption used by Research In Motion's BlackBerrys if the company doesn't open up its network. "If […]

There is fear that content owners could use a new law to incorporate elements into a digital product that could competitively damage retailers. Hollywood was biting its nails as hard [...]

WASHINGTON -- Oct-4 -- (CongressDaily) On a May morning two years ago, Republican lobbyist Ed Gillespie gave a political briefing to a dozen conservative House members on the importance of [...]

Though Bill Clinton and Al Gore have consistently presented themselves as champions of the cyber age, they have consistently battled against one aspect of the digital revolution: the spread of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sep-15 -- (CongressDaily) House Minority Leader Gephardt and other House Democrats who support legislation to loosen encryption export controls have asked President Clinton for a meeting to discuss [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-29 -- (CongressDaily) House Intelligence Chairman Goss introduced legislation Tuesday that would provide a tax credit to companies that make encryption products that include a feature enabling law [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-22 -- (CongressDaily) The House Armed Services Committee Wednesday voted to dramatically weaken legislation that would lift most controls on the export of generally available encryption, National Journal's [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-15 -- (CongressDaily) House Intelligence Chairman Goss will likely offer a substitute amendment to legislation to loosen controls on the export of encryption products that attempts to address [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-24 -- (CongressDaily) Legislation that would lift most controls on the export of generally available encryption products cleared the second of five committee hurdles Wednesday, as the House [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-22 -- (CongressDaily) House Judiciary Chairman Hyde Monday urged Speaker Hastert to reject a request by members of the Intelligence, Armed Services and International Relations committees for three [...]

WASHINGTON--Despite threats that legislation to relax export controls on encryption technology will hand over that technology to terrorists and weaken American national security, encryption legislation continued plugging along on Capitol [...]

How much technological assistance should the government be able to compel in an investigation, and at what risk to privacy? On March 1, both Apple executives and the director of [...]

The White House plan for protecting telecommunications from unauthorized access seems to have stalled. Congress is clamoring for more open debate on federal encryption policies. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas) has […]