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The Walsh Report was an Australian cryptography policy review undertaken for the Australian government by Gerard Walsh, initially released in 1996 and then withdrawn before its sale to the public. Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) obtained a redacted copy under freedom of information laws and published it on EFA's website. Subsequently an unredacted copy was found and the redacted parts were added to the EFA copy. ==Policy review== The Walsh Report was an Australian cryptography policy review undertaken at the request of the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department by Gerard Walsh, the former deputy director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The report included a broad analysis of cryptography issues from an Australian context. The report, titled ''Review of Policy relating to Encryption Technologies'', is popularly called the Walsh Report.〔 In his report Walsh found that there was a lack of coordination in the government over the establishment of cryptography policy. Walsh also reported no clarity as to which department and which minister was responsible for cryptographic policy. Consequently, there was a danger that policy would be developed without being coordinated.〔 The main advice given by Walsh in the report was that major legislative action to safeguard law-enforcement or national security was not required at the time. No specific options were recommended in the report for legislation on cryptography, nor did the report recommend mandatory key recovery. Recommendations in the report for minor legislative and other actions included: * establishment of a summary law on intrusive investigative powers * to consider the setting up of an additional and more serious offence when cryptography is used to obstruct a criminal investigation * to consider establishing a power to allow police to demand encryption keys〔 * a key recovery or escrow scheme, as had been advocated by the United States, not be established by Australia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walsh Report (cryptography)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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