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German Official Pleas for Strong Encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Weightman)
Tue Jul 8 12:07:07 1997
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:30:51 -0400 (EDT)
To: declan@well.com, rah@shipwright.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
cryptography@c2.net
From: Donald Weightman <dweightman@Radix.Net>
Reuters (as picked up in today's FINANCIAL TIMES) reports that German
economics minister Gunter Rexrodt called for loosening the restrictions on
strong encryption. Speaking yesterday at a European ministerial conference
on global integration, he said "Users can only protect themselves against
having data manipulated, destroyed, or spied on through the use of strong
encryption procedures."
Hmmm: seems like there's a trend among Certain Global Opinion Makers that
some people -- maybe the financial markets? -- need good crypto: compare
last week's ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES editorials. Anyone know how the
new German legislation deals with encryption?
cheers
.........................................
Donald Weightman
dweightman@radix.net
