We offer several documents from the PECSENC meeting of February 14, 1999: 1. Agenda 2. Members of PECSENC 3. Memorandum on PECSENC Action Plan 4. Executive Summary, PECSENC Meeting Open Session, March 12, 1999 5. Candid Meeting Comments (backdoor algorithms) http://jya.com/pecsenc051499.htm No. 5: Candid Meeting Comments (backdoor algorithms): Stewart Baker (ex-NSA Counsel, ex-PECSENC Acting Chairman): "McCain's bill [S.768] is stupid, written as idiot proof by ignorant people who don't understand that key recovery is dead. (Smile.)" (Emphasis in original) William Reinsch, Undersecretary of the Bureau of Export Administration: "The Senate doesn't get it, what we want them to do, the House does. (Smile.)" Several Attendees: "We've got to help them, give them [legislators] language that is acceptable. (Knowing nods.)" William Reinsch: "BXA will recommend to the Justice Department that the Bernstein decision be fought, we've got to, otherwise encryption export controls are finished. (Frown, '... national security ... '.)" William Crowell, PECSENC Chairman (ex-Deputy DIRNSA): "While PECSENC recommendations should formally go through the President's Export Council (PEC), we've got access to the White House. (Smile)." Several Attendees: "What will happen if Bernstein prevails, source code is exportable but executable code is not? Right, all the strong encryption will be developed outside the United States. The encryption industry will abandon America. (Gasps, groans, grins, eyerolls, poots.)"
