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RE: Reuters story-Wassenaar on crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jyri Kaljundi)
Sat Dec 5 11:48:21 1998
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:19:26 +0200 (EET)
From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@stallion.ee>
To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net, dccp@eff.org, "'Kathleen Ellis'" <ellis@epic.org>,
"'ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk'" <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE2013F85F3@MSX11002>
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Brown, R Ken wrote:
> The PR looks awfully like spin to me. Have countries like Germany or Finland
> *really* volunteered to force their citizens (and businesses) to only use
> crypto which can be easily read by NSA and GCHQ?
I guess Finland will stick by it's recently made national crypto policy
(http://www.vn.fi/lm/telecom/cryptography/guidelines.htm) so that inside
Finland there will be no restrictions any time soon, about export of
strong crypto, I doubt it will happen either. After all they gave the
presidential IT award to Data Fellows for their strong crypto products :)
Jyri Kaljundi
jk@stallion.ee
AS Stallion Ltd
http://www.stallion.ee/
