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Goodlatte: More Encryption Needed

Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is advocating more use of encryption among citizens and government to increase security on the Internet. Goodlatte�s exhortation comes after proposals to mandate the use of "key-escrow" encryption, a system where the government would hold the key to open all encrypted communications.

Lawmaker: More encryption needed, ZDNet (Reuters), September 24, 2001.
Senator Backs Off Backdoors, Wired, October 17, 2001.