Co-founder of PMC Ciphers, Inc., C.B. Roellgen speaks at the Echelon Committee of the European Parliament

In its session on Feb. 05, 2001 the Echelon Committee of the European Parliament held a hearing with experts in cryptography to know more about the technical aspects of the underlying mathematics and technology and of new developments.

 The Echelon Committee of the European Parliament works on solutions to prevent large-scale espionage on European companies and citizens.

 C.B. Roellgen outlined the necessity to combine existing technology with latest developments in order to minimize the number of interactions of highly sophisticated software with the user. Only 4% of all e-mails are encrypted, today! To increase this figure, more user-friendly encryption software must be developed.