From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 01:20:30 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Crypto Policy Paper
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We offer a paper distributed at the recent NYC crypto 
forum, 

"Private Groups and Public Policy: Cryptography 
and the National Research Council," 

by Kenneth Dam, professor of law at the University of
Chicago, a panelist at the forum, and chair of the 
NRC panel which produced the report "Cryptography's 
Role in Securing the Information Society," May, 1996.

   http://jya.com/damrole.htm  (63K)

Professor Dam recounts the impact of the NRC report
on the Administration's encryption policy as an example
of how private groups help shape public policy.