Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Owen Lewis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Brian Gladman
> Sent: 10 July 2001 23:17
> To: UK Crypto Posting
> Subject: Re: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper
>
>
> 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.

Then I apologise for my over-literality in failing to equate ***universal***
with 'all European'. However, given the multi-national' nature of most big
business, a purely 'all-European' approach to 100% encryption must fail on
practical grounds, rather on the 'governance' grounds we had previously
discussed?

Owen