Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Brian Gladman]

From: "Owen Lewis" <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper


> You also said:
>
> > But rather than trying to change the behaviour of the US, the EU
> > can easily remove the threat of Echelon if it wishes to do so.  All it
> > has to do is to
> > promote the rapid and ***universal*** deployment of end-to-end
> > cryptographic
> > information protection (voice and data).  It does not matter that much
of
> > this protection will be weak since it is the universal use of end-to-end
> > encryption, not its strength, that will completely devastate Echelon.
>
> To me, the your different thoughts will not cohere.

I made a proposal for what the Euroepan Parliament could do to protect
european information assets.  I did not think that I needed to spell out
that protecting european information assets in this way would not impact in
a direct way on the capabilities of Echelon in respect of non-european
information assets.

  Brian