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Re: HP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Fri Feb 27 20:19:35 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 98 13:30:07 PST
From: jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly)
To: froomkin@law.miami.edu
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Simon Spero wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know just what HP is actually going to be exporting? I heard
> > the words key recovery and sprained my hackles; is this something really
> > new, or just more of the same?
A. Michael Froomkin reacted:
> http://www.businesswire.com/day0/618371.htm
>
> Anyone know the escrow policies of Australia or Denmark?
Yes, B-J Koops knows all. http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
outlines crypto laws for most countries with an interest in crypto.
Regarding Australia he says the gov't has expressed little interest in
TTP schemes, and there are no domestic laws and regulations regarding
crypto. Their export laws are similar to Canada's.
Regarding Denmark: no export controls, no domestic regs. In 1996 the
Danish IT Security Council recommended that no limitations on
encryption use be introduced.
Speaking of Denmark, Danish DES demon-coder Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
suggested a year or so ago that the US could solve its crypto export
problems by simply encrypting all crypto programs with DES and leaving
them up for FTP with the key attached. Since US export regs prevent
us from exporting DES, the programs would be perfectly safe from
compromise by foreigners. Simple solution, no?
Jim Gillogly
