Encryption and Wiretapping

The debate about encryption export controls, key escrow, and the alteration of technology to build in surveillance, including CALEA.

Remarks on administration's September crypto proposal, by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary, September 22, 1999.

Strong Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change, by Arnold G. Rheinhold, Cato Policy Analysis, September 17, 1999.

Essays on encryption export controls, digital cash, and other trade issues from Economic Casualties: How U.S. Foreign Policy Undermines Trade, Growth, and Liberty, edited by Solveig Singleton and Daniel T. Griswold, 1999

Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery, by Solveig Singleton, Policy Analysis No. 325, An overview of encryption, November 19, 1998.

When You Call, Who Is Listening?, by David B. Kopel, Cato Daily Commentary, FBI wiretapping powers and CALEA, July 9, 1998.

The Myth of Superiority of American Encryption Products, by Henry B. Wolfe, Cato Briefing Paper No. 42, November 12, 1998.

Encryption Bound?, by Solveig Bernstein, Cato Daily Commentary, August 6, 1997.

Democracy Betrayed Means New Wiretapping Powers, by Solveig Bernstein, Cato Daily Commentary, October 2, 1996.

The U.S. Government's Encryption Policy Dodge, by Solveig Bernstein, Cato Daily Commentary, September 11, 1996.