[Cryptography] HR 5099

[Tom Mitchell]

It does not prohibit... it just removes them from the
must consult list.

This removes the equivalent of a doubly linked list
to walk if you are looking for the source of any odd
insertion.

There may be classified processes that keep them
and others in the loop.  Such regulations and processes
can exist  as long as participation is not prohibited by law.

As a law goes this is not very interesting.

If you are paranoid and like to see full and rich
audit trails and transparency it is "interesting."
However the existing must consult context gave
us little knowledge about anything of interest...
so this is a don't care.

It may impact travel vouchers... if required travel
would be required...  But black budgets can still
allow and would invoke more redactions than some
FOI obtained travel voucher documents folk here have
made reference to.

It may move forward as it hides some activity
better than required participation would.



On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:21 AM, R. Hirschfeld <ray at unipay.nl> wrote:

> This is a policy rather than technical question but is not meant as
> trolling--I'm genuinely interested in what list members (especially
> those at NIST) think of HR 5099, the bill in the current US Congress
> to remove the NSA from the list of agencies that NIST is required to
> consult when developing security standards,
>
> Ray
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