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INDIVIDUALS CAN USE ENCRYPTION TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY

WHAT ENCRYPTION IS

NEAL THOMPSON; The Buffalo News, February 2, 1999, SECTION: CLICK, Pg. 8E TITLE: WHITFIELD DIFFIE'S CRUSADE FOR PRIVACY // acs-EE2001

Cryptography, in its noncomputerized form, is an age-old art of writing in and deciphering secret codes. With the advent of the computer, complex algorithms -- the basis of encryption -- have been used to scramble and then reassemble data that users want to keep secret.

WE NEED STRONG ENCRYPTION TO PROTECT OUR PRIVACY

NEAL THOMPSON; The Buffalo News, February 2, 1999, SECTION: CLICK, Pg. 8E TITLE: WHITFIELD DIFFIE'S CRUSADE FOR PRIVACY // acs-EE2001

Diffie shakes his head at such logic. It scares him, because it's the complete opposite of what he believes will happen: the increasing loss of personal privacy in the high-tech future.

He believes we're moving quickly into a world where meetings, conversations and financial transactions will be handled via machines "and can, therefore, be watched by machines."

"Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people," he said.

ENCRYPTION IS AN IMPORTANT PERSONAL PRIVACY TOOL

NEAL THOMPSON; The Buffalo News, February 2, 1999, SECTION: CLICK, Pg. 8E TITLE: WHITFIELD DIFFIE'S CRUSADE FOR PRIVACY // acs-EE2001

Diffie believes encryption is an important personal privacy tool and is vital for making the Internet an online shopping mall.

ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO PROTECT PEOPLES’ PRIVACY

RICHARD DES RUISSEAUX, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY.), January 19, 1999, SECTION: FORUM Pg.07A TITLE: A LOOK AHEAD TO THE YEAR 2000 PRIVACY RETREATS AS TECHNOLOGY HURTLES FORWARD Hysteria' // acs-EE2001

Similarly, the industry and government are working on a number of fronts to resolve privacy issues, including the use of biometrics for authentication, various kinds of encryption tools to safeguard information, regulatory measures and more. "We're working, and others are, on things that will protect people's privacy through technology,'' Schwartz said. "We're trying to turn the paradigm on its head. Technology doesn't just take privacy away. It can be used to help protect us and can take back all the ground that we lose. It's something that we're looking toward.'' But in the meantime, the standard advice holds: Caveat emptor.

ENCRYPTION IS THE ARMAGEDDON ISSUE OF PRIVACY PROTECTION FROM GOVERNMENT ABUSE

Earl C. Ravenal, senior fellow of the Cato Institute, The Washington Post, July 23, 1999, SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. A29 TITLE: Heart of the Constitution; The encryption debate. // acs-EE2001

The debate about encryption is nothing less than the Armageddon of government police power vs. the heart and soul of the U.S. Constitution. Where is it written that American police officials (that is, crime, drug and tax officials) must have access to every communication, every transaction, among American citizens and any other persons in the world?

The pillars of liberty are ensured privacy and inviolable property. To be ensured, privacy must enjoy the broadest possible constitutional protection -- and property must be absolutely protected from government seizure unless in recompense for a civil judgment.

ONLINE CRYPTOGRAPHY IS CRITICAL TO ONLINE PRIVACY

Nadine Strossen, law professor at New York Law School AND president of the American Civil Liberties Union, PANEL DISCUSSION: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO PRIVACY RIGHTS, New York Law School Law Review , 1999, 43 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 195, EE2001-JGM, P.

The whole area of online encryption is, of course, another one in which privacy rights and free speech rights are mutually interdependent. Absent secure cryptography, many individuals and organizations simply will not engage in many kinds of online communications involving sensitive information.