However, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts and Intellectual Property will not yet confirm that such a session is indeed scheduled. Also, at the time the second scheduled markup was cancelled, it appeared that Sec. Opponents of the Clinton administration's Clipper chip plan and other incarnations of key-escrow encryption plans immediately jumped at the report's recommendations which, they say, add fuel to the burning fire of the administration's various proposals. A number of groups are pushing for the current legislation, including S. 1726, to move quickly through Congress before the end of this legislative session. The futility of the administration's attempts to control cryptography was made even more glaring this week as an official from RSA Data Security announced at a Washington conference that they were negotiating with Japan's NTT to resell a new 1,024 bit-length chip developed in Japan.
Japan has no export restrictions on such encryption devices.
This all begins to make the administration's policies look a little silly, as more than a number of people have already pointed out. Whether the administration's policy posititon will change in light of all these attacks remains to be seen.