However, there are less than 30 working days left in the Congressional session this year, so its appears unlikely that any legislative efforts will succeed. Nearly three hundred people attended the 1998 EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Conference on June 6. Speakers also included representatives from the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. On June 7, the CEOs of several computer companies sat down with FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno to discuss encryption policy. Following the meeting, the participants declined to discuss what had been said but it appears that no major deals were made.
Law enforcement has to accept that.
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