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proposed UK crypto ban: executive summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Sat Mar 22 00:01:11 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 02:14:55 GMT
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
I thought I'd condense my other post to list the major things that the
DTI paper appears to propose making illegal. (The full document can
be found at:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/pubs/
and mirrored by Ross Anderson here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/dti.html
)
The document by my reading proposes to make the following illegal:
- distribution of non-escrowed encryption s/w, both commercial and freeware
- import of non-escrowed encryption s/w
- export of non-escrowed encryption s/w
- foreign advertisements of non-escrowed encryption s/w
- foreign provision of non-escrowed encryption s/w
- distribution of encryption s/w at all without a license
- provision of CA services for authentication without a TTP license
- provision of CA services for encryption without a TTP license
- distribution of non-escrowed encryption s/w on the internet
I hope this gives you a flavour for what they're trying to do.
Adam
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