Encryption Working Group

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Princeton University have convened a small group of experts to advance a more constructive dialogue on encryption policy. The working group consists of former government officials, business representatives, privacy and civil rights advocates, law enforcement experts, and computer scientists. Observers from U.S. federal government agencies attended a select number of working group sessions. Since 2018, the working group has met to discuss a number of important issues related to encryption policy, including how the relevant technologies and uses of encryption will evolve in the future.

In April 2019, the working group released two papers that were prepared by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy at the request of the Carnegie Encryption Working Group as briefings to provide insight into future trends related to encryption policy. One paper focuses on the impacts of quantum computing and another paper addresses how market trends, consumer behavior, and engineering realities will shape the deployment of user-controlled encryption. The papers do not take a position on encryption policy, rather they provide analysis of the future trends related to encryption and how they will shape the issues that policymakers must address.

The Encryption Working Group will continue its efforts to study this important issue and plans on releasing further briefings on aspects of the encryption policy debate around the world in the coming months.

Members of the Encryption Working Group include:

• Jim Baker
  Former General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Katherine Charlet
  Program Director, Technology and International Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Tom Donahue
  Visiting Fellow, George Mason National Security Institute, and former Senior Director for Cyber Operations, National Security Council, White House
• Ed Felten
  Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Avril Haines
  Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Columbia World Projects and former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
• Susan Hennessey
  Executive Editor, Lawfare, and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution
• Chris Inglis
  Managing Director, Paladin Capital Group, and former Deputy Director, National Security Agency
• Sean Joyce
  US Cybersecurity and Privacy Leader, PwC, and former Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Susan Landau
  Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
• Christy Lopez
  Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown Law Center
• Alex Macgillivray
  Board Member, Data & Society, and former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States
• Jason Matheny
  Founding Director, Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and former Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
• Tim Maurer
  Co-Director and Fellow, Cyber Policy Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Denis McDonough
  Visiting Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former White House Chief of Staff
• Lisa Monaco
  Distinguished Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law, and former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
• Laura Moy
  Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown Law Center
• Michelle Richardson
  Director, Privacy and Data Project, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Ronald L. Rivest
  Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ari Schwartz
  Managing Director of Cybersecurity Services, Venable LLP
• Harlan Yu
  Executive Director, Upturn
• Denise Zheng
  Senior Associate (Non-resident), Technology Policy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all members. Some wish to remain anonymous for the time being and to contribute in their personal capacity.