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New variation in Australia/NZ export controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jan 29 10:44:48 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:03:31 (NZDT)
In their ongoing efforts to impose the US's export controls on their own
countries, it looks like Australia and New Zealand are moving more and more
into line with the requirements set by the NSA. A recent story in The Age (a
Melbourne, Australia newspaper), "Export ban kills Nexus' WHO deal" by
Suelette Dreyfus, contains the following comment from the DSD:
>Government approval is also needed for software with an interface specially
>designed for inserting cryptography, even if the program didn't contain any
>cryptography.
Although I'd always assumed this to be the case (the US does it so Australia
and NZ would too), this is the first time it's been explicitly stated. Are
there any other countries which have explicit crypto-with-a-hole restrictions?
Peter.
