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                Date: 1998-05-24
                 
                 
                Event: Scrambling for Safety in London
                
                 
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      q/depesche 98.5.24.1 
 
Event: Scrambling for Safety in London 
ist die Neuauflage des letztjährigen, von Privacy International ersonnenen europäischen 
Crypto/Fixtermins.  
 
 
 
SCRAMBLING FOR SAFETY 
 
Privacy, security and commercial implications of the UK and EU crypto policy announcements 
 
 
On May 29th, there will be a successor to last year's Scrambling for  
Safety conference. It will be held at University College, London; it is  
motivated by the DTI's recent cryptography policy announcement, and by the  
EU's proposed directive on digital signatures. 
This conference will provide a public forum for the Government and the  
European Commission to explain their policy initiatives to industry,  
commerce and the professions, and for interested parties to provide their  
initial feedback. It will consist of four sessions at each of which two or  
three speakers will present the issues, followed by a period of  
discussion.  
 
There will be no cost for members of the public to attend 
 
 
Register at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/sfs98.html
                   
or follow directions below. 
 
 
 
DRAFT AGENDA 
 
9:50 - Welcome 
iRoss Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory iIan Brown,  
University College, London iSimon Davies, Privacy International  
 
10:00 - Presentation of Government and Commission Proposals 
Chair: Caspar Bowden, Scientists for Labour  
i`The Government's cryptography policy proposals', Nigel Hickson, DTI  
i`European crypto policy - new developments', Richard Schlechter, European  
Commission  
 
11:00 - Tea 
 
11:30 - Industrial and Commercial Responses 
Chair: Ian Brown, University College, London  
i`Have business criticisms really been addressed?', Chris Sundt, CBI  
i`Understanding and managing the risks', Jeremy Hilton, ICX  
 
13:00 - Lunch 
 
14:00 - Human Rights versus National Security 
Chair: Simon Davies, Privacy International  
i`Privacy, human rights, surveillance and cryptography: An international  
view', David Banisar, EPIC i`Information warfare and key escrow',  
Whitfield Diffie, Sun Microsystems  
 
15:00 - Coffee 
 
15.30 p.m. - The Broader View 
Chair: Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory  
i`A lawyer's view of the new policy', Nicholas Bohm, Law Society working  
group on digital signatures i`The view of Britain's general  
practitioners', John Williams, Joint Computing Group of the Royal College  
of General Practitioners and the BMA's General Medical Services Committee  
i`The liberal view', David Chidgey MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for  
Trade and Industry  
 
17:00 - Close 
 
 
REGISTRATION 
 
There will be no cost for members of the public to attend. However last  
year's conference was oversubscribed, so please reserve your place by  
filling in this registration form.  
 
If you have difficulties with the form, you can send email to  
sfs-conf@cl.cam.ac.uk with your name, organisation, address, telephone,  
email and PGP fingerprint. However we'd prefer you to use the form as it  
will (hopefully) save us a lot of work.  
 
RELATED DOCUMENTS 
 
iEuropean Commission cryptography policy announcement. 
 
iUK Government cryptography policy announcement. 
 
iThe Labour party's pre-election position on encryption. 
 
iDepartment of Trade and Industry, "Licensing of Trusted Third Parties for  
the Provision of Encryption Services", 19 March 1997 (the previous  
government's policy proposal), and some of the responses to it. 
 
iDepartment of Trade and Industry, Paper on Regulatory Intent Concerning  
Use of Encryption on Public Networks, June 1996. 
 
iLast year's Scrambling for Safety conference. 
 
iThe Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties home page has an impressive collection  
of articles and links relating to UK policy issues. See also the Campaign  
Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, CDT, EPIC, EFF and GILC. 
 
iPreliminary results of a survey carried out by Brian Gladman on attitudes  
to the previous government's policy. 
 
iRoss Anderson's 1995 paper Crypto in Europe - Markets, Law and Policy  
surveys the uses of cryptography in Europe and points out some  
misconceptions that still persist in government policy statements.  
 
 
HOW TO GET THERE 
 
The venue is off Gordon Street, a short walk from Euston station. Here is  
a map. Best take public transport, as parking in this neighbourhood is  
both difficult to find and expensive. 
 
May 29, 1998 
Bloomsbury Theatre 
University College, London 
 
Organised by: 
University College, London 
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory 
Privacy International 
 
Chairman: Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory 
 
Sponsored by: 
The Cyber Angel EXR Encryptor 
 
 
 
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