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U.S. Says Got Curb On Global Encryption Trade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Armbrust)
Thu Dec 3 18:21:33 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:49:14 -0700
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Mark Armbrust <marka@ff.com>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/pl/story.html?s=v/nm/19981203/pl/encryp
tion_1.html
>U.S. Says Got Curb On Global Encryption Trade
>
>By Aaron Pressman
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clinton administration officials Thursday said they
>had persuaded other leading countries to impose strict new export controls
>on computer data-scrambling products under the guise of arms control.
>
>At a meeting Thursday in Vienna, the 33 nations that have signed the
>Wassenaar Arrangement limiting arms exports -- including Japan, Germany and
>Britain -- agreed to impose controls on the most powerful data-scrambling
>technologies, including for the first time mass-market software, U.S.
>special envoy for cryptography David Aaron told Reuters.
>
>The United States, which restricts exports of a wide range of
>data-scrambling products and software -- also known as encryption -- has
>long sought without success to persuade other countries to impose similar
>restrictions.
>
>``We think this is very important in terms of bringing a level playing field
>for our exporters,'' Aaron said.
>
>...
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