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Re: export/import status of Russia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu Mar 13 11:00:39 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 09:21:28 EST
In-Reply-To: <85823446506627@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> > ... I seem to remember that
> >Russia was planning to establish France-like restrictions on the use
> >of crypto, ...
...
> It isn't a law, it was done as a presidential decree because the Russian
> parliament refused to pass it as a law (does this trick sound familiar to US
> people?).
Yeltsin's decree (Ukaz), issued in April '95, was discussed at length on
the Cypherpunks list. (I posted an English translation.) It mandated the
use of encryption in certain financial applications, and at the same time
prohibited the use of crypto without a licence. (As I pointed out, the
prohibition's language was so broad that vanilla Unix passwords were
probably covered by it.) However this is the first time I hear that
the parliament (Duma) considered passing this as a law and refused.
The decree was phrased as an implementation of a law passed previously
by the parliament (sort of like U.S.President's executive orders can
implement U.S.C.). If you have any references showing that the Duma
refused to pass this as a law, or that it even discussed it, I'd be
curious to know.
Thanks in advance,
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