Labels:text | black and white | letter OCR: go on record about this sensitive matter. Protests from the scientific community per- "There is a very real and critical danger that suaded the government to lift its secrecy orders in unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic mat- both these cases. At least for now, academics and ters will seriously damage the ability of this govern- inventors can continue to write and confer on cryp- ment to conduct signals intelligence and protect na- tographic schemes. But the threat of renewed gov- tional security information from hostile exploita- tion," he complained. "The very real concerns we ernment harassment has complicated further at NSA have about the impact of nongovernmental research. Universities have agreed to defend pro- fessors against federal prosecution related to code cryptologic ...