From: "Herb Lin" <hlin@nas.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 10:08:46 +0800
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Subject: The National Research Council Study of National...
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Subject:
The National Research Council Study of National Cryptography Policy

  The NRC report entitled

  Cryptography's Role in Securing
  the Information Society
  
  was released on May 30, 1996.
  
  A public briefing on the report will be held in New York City:
  Wednesday, July 10, 1996, 10:00 am to noon.
  
  It will be presented at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  (ABCNY) under the aegis of its Committee on Science and Law.
  Mr. Kenneth Dam, study chair and Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law
   at the University
  of Chicago, Mr. Colin Crook, committee member and senior technology officer at
   Citicorp, and Dr.
  Herbert Lin, study director and senior staff officer of CSTB, will be present.

  The briefing will take place in the Stimson Room, 42 W. 44th Street, New York,
   New York, from 10:00
  a.m. to Noon.  Committee members will respond to questions from attendees, and
   a limited number of
  pre-publication copies of the report will be available at that time.  For
  further information, please
  contact Michael Schiffres of the ABCNY Committee on Science and Law at (718)
  248-5708 for further
  information.  The event is open to the press and the public.

     If you have suggestions about other places that the committee should
     offer a public briefing, please send e-mail to crypto@nas.edu.