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U.S. President Barack Obamas administration still believes in the use of encryption to protect digital information, even after top officials have questioned how law enforcement agencies will get access to data on encrypted devices, a White House advisor said.

There is no scenario in which the U.S. government wants weaker encryption, Michael Daniel, the White Houses cybersecurity coordinator, said Thursday.

But Obama and other officials have raised questions about how to deal with technology that puts information literally beyond the reach of law enforcement under any sort of due process, Daniel said during a discussion about encryption and law enforcement at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C.

In recent months, FBI director James Comey, U.S. National Security Agency director Michael Rogers and Obama himself have all raised concerns about law enforcement access to encrypted communications.

The officials raised those concerns after moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphone operating systems, in part in response to news reports about large-scale surveillance programs at the NSA. But the concerns were meant to kick start a broad public debate about the amount of data law enforcement agencies should have access to, Daniel said.

Daniel didnt offer any suggestions about how to allow police access to encrypted data without building back doors into devices, but he said its important for the U.S. to work out a process that is acceptable to police, to tech vendors and to the public. The U.S. needs to come up with a solution that it can show the rest of the world as an alternative to more invasive options being pushed by China and other countries, he said.

This is a problem thats worth a lot of graduate students time, he said.

The debate about law enforcement access to electronic devices isnt going away, with the growing adoption of the Internet of things, drones and autonomous vehicles, noted Daniel Castro, vice president at ITIF. Law enforcement agencies will have interest in similar levels of access to those technologies as it does to smartphones and other devices, he said.

Other speakers at the ITIF event questioned how a new U.S. policy could create a process for law enforcement agencies to get access to encrypted data without also exposing that data to cyberattackers.

So far, encrypted communications havent created much of a problem, with the U.S. Courts 2013 wiretap report showing only nine cases nationwide where encryption limited police from gaining access to information, said Amie Stepanovich, senior policy counsel at Access, a digital rights group.

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Tools brings easy encryption for database fields and file names

MILWAUKEE, -- PKWARE today introduced new, easy-to-use features in its Smart Encryption Software Development Kit (SDK) to provide architects with strong encryption they can trust. As data breaches multiply, more businesses are looking at data level strategies to protect their customers and assets from threats inside and outside the organization.

"As internal enterprise networks become as vulnerable as the public Internet, databases are routinely accessed by snoops and thieves, requiring security at the field level," said Matt Little, vice president of product development at PKWARE, Inc. "Modern architects need security they can easily embed into their existing systems. The field level encryption provided by our software development kit makes this process efficient and painless."

PKWARE's Smart Encryption SDK, is currently in use by tens of thousands of businesses and developers around the world. New features include:

-- Field-level encryption: Protects sensitive information in databases at the field level allowing organizations in financial services, government and healthcare to maintain compliance. -- Length + Format preserving protection: Preserves database schemas requiring only minimal changes to applications. Solidifies integrity for fields containing fixed length or format specific values like Social Security or credit cards numbers without compromising referential integrity.

These new features were created in response to encryption needs from security architects and database administrators at a major financial services firm needing interoperable protection for structured and unstructured data.

To find out more about how to easily embed encryption into everything from databases and servers to partner sharing portals and the cloud, visit: https://www.pkware.com/software/developer-tools

About PKWARE PKWARE's Smart Encryption armors data at its core, eliminating vulnerabilities everywhere it is used, shared or stored. Smart Encryption is easily embedded and managed without changing the way people work. Integrated across all enterprise systems, platforms and languages, Smart Encryption fortifies information security inside and outside the organization. For nearly three decades, PKWARE has provided security and compression software to more than 30,000 enterprise customers, including 200 government entities. PKWARE invented .ZIP, the world's most widely used, file-based open standard.

Media Contacts: Justin Kern 414-908-2976 justin.kern@pkware.com

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