My short bio: Representatives from Access, CDT, EFF, Silent Circle, and the Sunlight Foundation will discuss efforts to strengthen encryption principles and remove the NSA involvement in the standard setting process. Snowden documents have revealed NSA efforts to undermine encryption standards set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (ironically the NSA’s mission includes “information assurance”). Between Heartbleed, large-scale data breaches, and overbroad surveillance, data is being compromised at an unprecedented level. We will talk about efforts by coalition of digital rights, technology, privacy, and open government groups to call on NIST to strengthen cryptography principles.

Participants include: Amie Stepanovich (astepanovich), Access Joseph Hall (joebeone), CDT Nate Cardozo (natecardozo), EFF Kurt Opsahl (kurtopsahl), EFF Sean Vitka (svitka), Sunlight Foundation