Inman, then director of the National Security Agency (NSA), argued in 1980 that sharing such research could hinder US. intelli-gence gathering. In a two-year test, some cryptographers are submit- ting papers to the NSA for prepublication review. But many others have refused NSA offers of financial aid, fearing censorship or classifi- cation of their discoveries.
Keeping new cryptographic knowledge secure may not even be pos- sible, Bok concludes. Voluntary controls will work only if researchers...