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European crypto export policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Mon Feb 17 20:58:36 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 02:39:15 +0100 (MET)
From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Swedish Datateknik 97-02 features an article about how COCOM/ Wassenaar
Arrangement effects Swedish crypto exports.
I wonder if someone whose Swedish is better than mine could summarize
the article? It is at http://www.et.se/datateknik/arkiv/97-02/5.html
Datateknik 97-01 reports about pressure for crypto regulations from
the US, but also from the EU and OECD [the OECD turned out not to
endorse key escrow shortly after the article was published]. The
Swedish government is currently collecting facts and opinions; so far
it remains an open question which standpoint it will take. England is
preparing a law similar to the French one, while there are policy
discussions similar to the Swedish going on in Germany and Denmark,
says Göran Axelsson, Sweden's representative in the EU's IT security
body.
