Email petition to oppose "Clipper"

[Rebecca <rnaffziger -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM>]

I thought that this might be of interest to you.--Rebecca Naffziger

>>Comments by: Bill Thomassen -at- BusinessAffairs@CCC
>>Originally To: Bill Thomassen -at- BusinessAffairs@CCC, Darin Blackman -at- ComputerSvcs
>>Original Date: Tuesday, March 1, 1994 at 7:58:25 am PST
>>Originally From: Nathalie Ferrero -at- InstSrvs@OCC
>>Comments:
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>>This is a very important, albeit negative, feature of Clinton's "Information
>>Super-Highway".
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>>Please read this and, if you agree that Clipper is a really bad idea, please
>>register your vote as the attachment describes.
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>>Thanks.
>>
>>WLT
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>>Comments by: Nathalie Ferrero -at- InstSrvs@OCC
>>Originally To: KIDSPHERE, Subscribers, <kidsphere -at- vms -dot- cis -dot- pitt -dot- edu>
>>Original Date: Monday, February 28, 1994 at 11:41:35 pm PST
>>Originally From: KIDSPHERE Mailing List <kidsphere -at- vms -dot- cis -dot- pitt -dot- edu>
>>Comments:
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>>Since you know more about Clipper and its potential, I thought you might be
>>interested in this petition that is "circulating."
>>
>>Nathalie
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>>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:18:10 -0700 (MST)
>>From: JESMITH -at- starburst -dot- uscolo -dot- edu
>>Subject: Clipper
>>
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:07:43 -0600 (UTC -06:00)
>>To:   ABRAMS -at- FALCON -dot- CC -dot- UKANS -dot- EDU
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>> For those of you who don't know, Clipper is a proposal circulating in the
>> government right now whereby the government will require that all methods of
>> encrypting data (including e-mail) have a 'backdoor' of sorts so that the
>> government will be able to decrypt and read any electronic mailing.
>>
>> Below are details on a petition against Clipper, and how to sign your name
>> to it.  Please read.
>>
>> -Todd (signe)
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>>                 Electronic Petition to Oppose Clipper
>>                       Please Distribute Widely
>>
>> On January 24, many of the nation's leading experts in cryptography
>> and computer security wrote President Clinton and asked him to
>> withdraw the Clipper proposal.
>>
>> The public response to the letter has been extremely favorable,
>> including coverage in the New York Times and numerous computer and
>> security trade magazines.
>>
>> Many people have expressed interest in adding their names to the
>> letter.  In  response to these requests, CPSR is organizing an
>> Internet petition drive to oppose the Clipper proposal.  We will
>> deliver the signed petition to the White House, complete with the
>> names of all the people who oppose Clipper.
>>
>> To sign on to the letter, send a message to:
>>
>>      Clipper -dot- petition -at- cpsr -dot- org
>>
>> with the message "I oppose Clipper" (no quotes)
>>
>> You will receive a return message confirming your vote.
>>
>> Please distribute this announcement so that others may also express
>> their opposition to the Clipper proposal.
>>
>> CPSR is a membership-based public interest organization.  For
>> membership information, please email cpsr -at- cpsr -dot- org -dot-   For more
>> information about Clipper, please consult the CPSR Internet Library -
>> FTP/WAIS/Gopher CPSR.ORG /cpsr/privacy/crypto/clipper
>>
>>
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>>
>> The President
>> The White House
>> Washington, DC  20500
>>
>> Dear Mr. President:
>>
>>      We are writing to you regarding the "Clipper" escrowed encryption
>> proposal now under consideration by the White House.  We wish to
>> express our concern about this plan and similar technical standards
>> that may be proposed for the nation's communications infrastructure.
>>
>>      The current proposal was developed in secret by federal agencies
>> primarily concerned about electronic surveillance, not privacy
>> protection.  Critical aspects of the plan remain classified and thus
>> beyond public review.
>>
>>      The private sector and the public have expressed nearly unanimous
>> opposition to Clipper.  In the formal request for comments conducted
>> by the Department of Commerce last year, less than a handful of
>> respondents supported the plan.  Several hundred opposed it.
>>
>>      If the plan goes forward, commercial firms that hope to develop
>> new products will face extensive government obstacles. Cryptographers
>> who wish to develop new privacy enhancing technologies will be
>> discouraged.  Citizens who anticipate that the progress of technology
>> will enhance personal privacy will find their expectations
>> unfulfilled.
>>
>>      Some have proposed that Clipper be adopted on a voluntary basis
>> and suggest that other technical approaches will remain viable.  The
>> government, however, exerts enormous influence in the marketplace, and
>> the likelihood that competing standards would survive is small.  Few
>> in the user community believe that the proposal would be truly
>> voluntary.
>>
>>      The Clipper proposal should not be adopted.  We believe that if
>> this proposal and the associated standards go forward, even on a
>> voluntary basis, privacy protection will be diminished, innovation
>> will be slowed, government accountability will be lessened, and the
>> openness necessary to ensure the successful development of the
>> nation's communications infrastructure will be threatened.
>>
>>      We respectfully ask the White House to withdraw the Clipper
>> proposal.
>>
>>
>> Yours truly,
>> Will
>>
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