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Re: ETSI vote on key escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eivind Eklund)
Fri Mar 12 14:40:24 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:37:42 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <92125507207277@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>; from Peter Gutmann on Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:11:12AM +1300
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:11:12AM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> >[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.
That's not surprising. Not to me, at least. It seems reasonable that
a country where the people is the governement won't allow GAK - and
one where the governement is more of an independent actor instead of
representing the people will be in favour of GAK.
Those are also one of the lines along which opportunity for a
repressive governement vs no opportunity for repressive governement
are divided - it is almost impossible to get a repressive governement
in a country where the governement really is controlled by the people.
Eivind.
