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Re: Summary (Re: Cryptography laws for Eastern Europe?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jyri Kaljundi)
Tue Aug 12 13:24:35 1997
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:27:10 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@stallion.ee>
To: Nelson Minar <nelson@media.mit.edu>
cc: cryptography@c2.net, E.J.Koops@kub.nl
In-Reply-To: <199707181323.PAA13911@jancso.syslab.ceu.hu>
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Nelson Minar wrote:
> So I couldn't find any information at all for these places: Albania,
> Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Romania,
> Ukraine, Yugoslavia. I guess there's not much about these countries on
> the net. I'd guess many of these places don't have formal laws in
> place to handle cryptography. I'll ask my students, maybe they know more.
>
> Next question - does anyone actually obey these laws in Russia and
> Byelorussia? Are they enforced?
Late answer, but better now than never. Speaking for Estonia, Latvia &
Lithuania I am pretty sure there are no restrictions what you can import,
export or use. People (even politicians) here have better things to do
than set up this kind of laws, and I believe this will continue for at
least some years. Joining European Union or any other geopolitical union
might change the legislation, but as most of Scandinavia is quite liberal
and pro-freedom in such things, I don't think anything will change so
soon.
About Russia: no, people do not obey the legislation. Free software like
PGP & SSH is widely in use, and at least I have sold commercial encryption
software from Estonia to Russia without any problems, so I do not think
there are any problems.
Jyri Kaljundi
jk@stallion.ee
AS Stallion Ltd.
