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              | Date: 1999-12-02 
 
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 Einer der Wortführer gegen den Einbau von
 Überwachungsschnittstellen ins Internet Protokoll von der
 IETF [Internet Engineering Task Force]  wurde im Anschluß
 an die überwältigende Ablehnung  einer Ermittlung durch das
 FBI zugeführt.
 post/scrypt: Hat wer das von der McCarthy Ära und
 Dissidenten/hatz gesagt?
 
 
 Mehr über den Anlaß:
 
 http://archiv.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg00910.html
 http://archiv.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg00898.html
 http://archiv.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg00872.html
 
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 Crypto Advocate Under FBI Investigation
 
 Tuesday, November 30, 1999 - We recently published a story
 regarding cryptography and IPv6, where somseone at the
 Department of Justice accused Scott Bradner, Internet
 Engineering Task Force (IETF) area coordinator, of an anti-
 social act by trying to get encryption inserted into the new
 protocol. Later, at an IETF meeting where votes were taken
 for IPv6 encryption inclusion, Fore System's Brian Rosen
 brazenly claimed that regardless of any encryption inclusion,
 Fore systems would proceed by including back doors into
 any included encryption technology. But the harrassment of
 the IETF doesn't stop there.
 ..
 We learned that William Allen Simpson, a Detroit-based
 computer consultant who was on the IETF staff, has been
 investigated by the federal government for treason charges.
 Simpson was the person that argued loudly for encryption to
 be included in the PPP protocol when it was still in design
 phases. That push landed Simpson in hot whatever with
 federal officials. Simpson learned through friends that he was
 under investigation for treason -- the FBI had been
 interviewing his friends and associates.
 
 Simpson obtained 54 pages of documents from the
 government under the Freedom of Information act,
 ..
 Simpson did learn that the FBI had accused him of
 "challenging authority and laws that may impinge upon his
 activities."
 
 Wait a second! Isn't that part of what the Constitution is all
 about--the means to peacefully object to the laws of the
 land?
 ..
 The IETF is an open public standards body that conducts its
 business in clear public view. They help stear standards that
 better ensure compatibility and interoperability. So why would
 the FBI investigate an IETF member just because that person
 suggested in a public meeting that strong encryption be
 included in a standard wide-spread protocol such as PPP?
 
 Full text
 http://www.ntsecurity.net/go/2c.asp?f=/news.asp?IDF=186&TB=news
 
 relayed by
 Sascha Ignjatovic <sascha@isoc.vienna.org>
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