10.14.1. Emergency Orders
- various NSDDs and the like
- "Seven Days in May" scenario
10.14.2. Legal, secrecy orders
- George Davida, U. oif Wisconsin, received letter in 1978
threatening a $10K per day fine
- Carl Nicolai, PhasorPhone
- The NSA has confirmed that parts of the EES are patented,
in secrecy, and that the patents will be made public and
then used to stop competitors should the algorithm become
known.
10.14.3. Can the FCC-type Requirements for "In the clear" broadcasting
(or keys supplied to Feds) be a basis for similar legislation
of private networks and private use of encryption?
- this would seem to be impractical, given the growth of
cellular phones, wireless LANs, etc....can't very well
mandate that corporations broadcast their internal
communications in the clear!
- compression, packet-switching, and all kinds of other
"distortions" of the data...requiring transmissions to be
readable by government agencies would require providing the
government with maps (of where the packets are going), with
specific decompression algorithms, etc....very impractical
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