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Re: European crypto export policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bert-Jaap Koops)
Thu Feb 20 11:06:19 1997
From: "Bert-Jaap Koops" <E.J.Koops@kub.nl>
To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf M/ller), cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:39:19 MET
Ulf Moeller wrote:
> 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
I'll give it a try and summarize the article. This may contain errors
and omissions because of my poor Swedish.
[begin summary]
Sweden has signed the Wassenaar Arrangement, along with 32 other
countries (including South Korea, Bulgaria and Turkey).
Some general information on the meaning of the Wassenaar
Arrangement is given.
Even though blacklisting of countries is not allowed, in practice this
happens.
Swedens Strategic Products Regulation now in principle restricts
export of all cryptography. A license is needed for export, even for
a citizen of Helsingborg who takes the ferry across the Oeresund with
a laptop containing cryptography. For export to Europe, this is often
seen as 'terrorising bureaucracy'. The problem is that not even all
EU countries fulfil the Wassenaar requirements. It seems only England,
France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and a few others have the
necessary capacity and knowledge to be able to count as receiver
country.
[End summary]
This afternoon, I'll publish an update of my Crypto Law Survey at
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
which includes information on the Wassenaar Arrangement.
Bert-Jaap
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