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Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Dec 8 14:04:10 1998
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:23:15 (NZDT)
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
>Let's replicate these archives in many countries. I call for volunteers in
>each country, at each university or crypto-aware organization, to download
>crypto tools while they can still be exported from where they are, and then to
>offer them for export from your own site and your own country as long as it's
>legal. (The Wassenaar agreement is not a law; each country has merely agreed
>to try to change its own laws, but that process has not yet started.)
I've made a start with http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/archive.html.
This currently contains a mostly blank page because it'll take a few days to
get things set up, but I thought I'd get the ball rolling. Once it's ready
I'll use it to make all sorts of crypto available to anyone anywhere until
ordered by a NZ court to stop doing so (this is a long way removed from being
ordered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to stop doing so), or
alternatively until the machine sh*ts itself and dies, which may happen
somewhat sooner :-).
The archives (when ready) will be stored on a machine for which accesses are
not logged. It may also allow SSL access (with strong encryption, obviously),
which will include making available dummy files of various sizes so that it's
not possible to prove (based on traffic analysis) exactly what was downloaded
("Crypto? Certainly not, I was downloading this paper on the history of
Ethiopian pottery in 4000BC").
Peter.
