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Re: ETSI vote on key escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Mar 12 11:36:07 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 05:11:12 (NZDT)
>[ETSI GAK vote]
>
>Yes: Belgium (5), Bulgaria (3), Cyprus (2), Czech Rep. (3), Hungary (3),
>Netherlands (5), Portugal (5), Slovak Rep. (2), Turkey (5), UK (10).
>
>No: Austria (4), Denmark (3), Finland (5), Germany (10), Greece (5), Ireland
>(3), Italy (10), Norway (3), Sweden (4), Switzerland (5).
There's an interesting partition of votes by geographical area there: Benelux
and eastern Europe for GAK, central Europe and Scandinavia against it. What's
particularly interesting is that all the countries with half a centuries bad
experience with repressive governments voted in *favour* of GAK. Several
years ago someone told me that the constitution which Hungary was then working
on drafting specifically allowed the use of (presumably non-gakked) encryption
by citizens... I wonder what caused the change.
Peter.
