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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.


It's official:

*   http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif
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*   SECRET FBI report
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*                   NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY
*  
*   A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures
*   that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be
*   crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored
*   with real-time decryption.
*   
*   All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited.



The U.S. asked the OECD to agree to internationally required Key Recovery.

*   What Is The OECD
*
*   The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in
*   Paris, France, is a unique forum permitting governments of the
*