Outgoing Drug Enforcement Administrator Thomas Constantine, offering the most dire predictions, said lawmakers would create "an electronic sanctuary" for criminals intent on disrupting public safety or national security if the plan to drop controls on exports of encryption technology is not stopped.

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In the early days of his research, Cerf said, he worked on a more secure version of his networking protocol for the National Security Agency, but wasn't able to implement that technology in what would become the public Internet.

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