--- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:15:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Wouters <paul@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Subject: Dutch tapping spec goes EU Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310092351050.12658-100000@private> Hi Declan, It seems that ETSI is about to more or less adopt the Dutch tapping specification for IP traffic: tp://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11946 European Union chooses Dutch to tap IP wires [ ... ] The Dutch started codifying standards in the late '90s that evolved into the TIIT specifications, a nice tidy package likely to be adapted by the ETSI. [ ... ] The spec leaked out years ago, and can be downloaded from OpenTap at: http://www.opentap.org/documents/TIIT-v1.0.0.pdf (protocol) http://www.opentap.org/documents/101WAI-GT-FuncspecV1.0.1.doc (operations) I've critized parts of these documents on various occasions, including on this list http://lists.jammed.com/politech/2003/04/0050.html and at the CCC conference a few years ago: http://www.opentap.org/ccc/ I have been afraid of the dangers of "Black box tapping" in the past. But now that not one, but many nations, who often like to tap each other, are going to use this same form of black box tapping, it becomes more important then ever to have a tapping system that is accountable and verifiably secure. It is also time that the cryptographic hashes transmitted to the lawful interception agencies are not just used to verify the transmission, but that the ISP is also capable and allowed to store and sign these hashes so that the interception agencies themselves can be hold accountable, and any potejtial tampering with evidense by the LEA's become impossible. People interested in assisting the funding of the opensource version of this EU wide tapping protocol are strongly encouraged to contact me. Paul Wouters _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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