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by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington
: *   conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those
: *   conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in
: *   response to a question.
: *   
: *   Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the
: *   access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further
: *   legislation might be required.
: *   
: *   The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any
: *   cryptographic device that did not provide government access.
: *   
: *   Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds
: *   of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels
: *   are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress.
: *   "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations
: *   over the telephone and other communications devices will become
: *   indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue,
: *   jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country."

Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War.


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