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Re: European crypto export policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johan Danielsson)
Thu Feb 20 15:51:51 1997
To: Asgaard <asgaard@Cor.sos.sll.se>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
Date: 20 Feb 1997 21:12:07 +0100
In-Reply-To: Asgaard's message of Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:20:47 +0100 (MET)
Asgaard <asgaard@Cor.sos.sll.se> writes:
> A representative of the ISP says that only a handful of EU member
> states are completely cleared by the Wassenaar statutes to be at the
> importing end of strong crypto: England, France, Holland, Sweden and
> Germany. Most other EU states could fail because it would be to
> upgrade them concerning their cryptologic resources.
What Egon Svensson (head of ISP) fails to say (in this article, and
elsewhere) is that according to SFS 1994:2060 *any* cryptographic
software that is "generally available" is excluded from the list of
export restricted goods. But these people obviously never bothered
with common things like what the law says.
> So much about that short article. In addition to Goran Axelsson,
> Sweden's representative in the EU's IT security body whom Ulf is
> mentioning in his post, Swedish crypto-politics is handled by this
> guy's boss (at least formally) at the UD, Magnus Faxen.
Magnus Fax=E9n is head of a group that is supposed to prepare for an
investigation of what the Swedish government should think about these
matters.
/Johan
