Report by the Temporary Committee on ECHELON Available Online

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 25, 2001

The report mentioned earlier today involving the European
Parliament’s recommendation that European governments foster the
development of end-user-friendly open source cryptography software
has been posted online and is also available in PDF format.

Cryptome has a complete transcript, and the Federation of
American Scientists has provided the PDF.

– The Commission and Member States are asked to devise
appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European
encryption technology and software and above all to support
projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption
software.

– Both the European institutions and the public administrations
of the Member States are called upon systematically to encrypt
e-mails so that ultimately encryption becomes the norm.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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