From: Bob Palacios <bobpal@cdt.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:51:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: REMINDER: SAFE Forum Cybercast - Monday July 1, 12 noon - 6 pm EDT
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SECURITY AND FREEDOM THROUGH ENCRYPTION FORUM
MONDAY JULY 1, 1996
STANFORD, CA
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT / 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm EDT / 1600 - 2000 GMT
 
On July 1, 1996 in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, members of
Congress and prominent computer industry leaders and privacy advocates will
meet to discuss the need to reform U.S. encryption policy.

The SAFE Forum will bring together members of Congress, privacy advocates,
cryptographers, and industry leaders for a discussion on the need to reform
U.S. encryption policy.

If you can't attend the SAFE Forum in person, you can still participate by
attending the cybercast of the event.  The cybercast will include still 
photos of the conference, a RealAudio broadcast of the forum, and a telnet
chat room for netizens to discuss the event and cryptography issues.

Just visit the SAFE Forum web site on Monday for the necessary links:

     http://www.crypto.com/safe/

(You will need to be a copy of RealAudio installed on your computer.  
Visit http://www.realaudio.com/ for a FREE copy of Real Audio).

The SAFE Forum Cybercast is brought to you with the help and support of:

     MediaCast (http://www.mediacast.com/)
       and
     AudioNet (http://www.audionet.com/)

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Event Information

   * Location: Kresge Auditorium at Stanford University, Stanford,
     California
   * Date: July 1, 1996, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Program:

9:00 - 9:15       Welcome

    Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Ca), co-host
    Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Ca), co-host
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) (by satellite)
    Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology

9:15 - 10:15      The Need for Locks and Keys on the GII:
                  An Encryption Overview

    Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications
    Lori Fena, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems
    Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corporation

10:15 - 10:30     Technology Demo: The Need for Locks & Keys
                  -- Packet Sniffing on the Internet (Cylink Corporation)

10:30 - 10:45     Break

10:45 - 11:45     How U.S. Encryption Policy Fails to Meet User Needs

    Herbert Lin, National Research Council
    Jim Omura, Cylink Corporation
    Tim Oren, CompuServe Incorporated
    Phil Zimmermann, PGP, Inc.
    Todd Lappin, Wired Magazine
          -- Introducing "Stories of Real-Life Encryption Users"

11:45 - 1:00      Lunch

1:00 - 1:45       The Cryptographers' Report: "Forty Bits Is Not Enough"

    Matt Blaze, AT&T
    Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems
    Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems
    Eric Thompson, Access Data
    Tom Parenty, Sybase

    Technology Demo: The Genie is Out of the Bottle --
       A World Wide Web Tour of Good Cryptography Available Outside of
       the United States

1:45 - 2:45       Addressing Law Enforcement Concerns in a
                  Constitutional Framework

    Ken Bass, Venabel, Baetjer, Howard and Civiletti
    Cindy Cohn, McGlashan & Sarrail
    Michael Froomkin, University of Miami Law School
    John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
    Nadine Strossen, American Civil Liberties Union
    Daniel Weitzner, Center for Democracy and Technology

2:45 - 3:00       Conclusion

Members of Congress expected to participate include:

   * Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
   * Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA)
   * Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
   * Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
   * Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (by satellite)

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Sponsors Of The SAFE Forum:

America Online
American Civil Liberties Union
Americans for Tax Reform
AT&T
Audionet
Business Software Alliance
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for National Security Studies
Commercial Internet eXchange
CompuServe Incorporated
Computer and Communications Industry Association
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Cylink Corporation
Digital Secured Networks Technology
EDS
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Messaging Association
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Information Technology Association of America
IEEE - USA
ManyMedia
MediaCast
Media Institute
Microsoft Corporation
National Association of Manufacturers
Netcom Online Communication Services
Netscape Communications Corporation
Novell, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.
Prodigy, Inc.
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Rent-a-Computer
Securities Industry Association
Software Publishers Association
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sybase, Inc.
Voters Telecommunications Watch
Wired Magazine
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CORRECTION

An earlier Policy Post listed Matt Blaze with Lucent Technologies.  That
information was incorrect; he is with AT&T Research.
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