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transatlantic surveillance standards
The US equivalent
to ETSI ES 201.671
called J-STD-025
is being developed in the
TIA TR 45 LAES [Telecom Industry Association - Lawfully
Authorized Electronic Surveillance] und T1P1
standardization committees. Despite the difference of the
European and US fixed and mobile telecom networks the methods
and aims of law enforcement and are quite the same.
On both sides of the
Atlantic law enforcement have been demanding interception
capabilities close to real time. That is the core of the
International User Requirements [IUR] developed jointly in the
ILETS [International Law Enforcement Telecom Seminars].
The European participants are the Police
Cooperation Working Group [PCWG] who use ENFOPOL
[plus uprising numbers] as an acronym for their internal
documents.
Members of this group
have been active in the working groups
ETSI SEC LI and ETSI
SEC ESI. Until 1999 working group SEC ESI was known as SEC
TTP - they developed standards for a so called "Trusted
Third Parties" system for encryption keys, otherwise
known as "key
escrow." As nobody would have "key
escrow" they turned to standardization of digital
signatures by the middle of 1999.
The key document members
both of of SEC LI and PCWG are currently labouring on
is called "Requirements of Law Enforcement Agencies" [Draft
TR 101 331 V.0.2. 2001-1] that shall replace ETR
101 331 [Dec 1996]. Both documents define their scope
as to providing
"a set of requirements relating to handover interfaces for
the interception by law enforcement and state security
agencies." [bold by me]
Upon those requirements
all valid ETSI standards have been developed. That much about
"lawful interception" and wiretapping standards
developed for police interception purposes only, ordered by the
decision of an independent court.
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