[107300] in Cypherpunks
RSA creates hole in crypto law [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sat Jan 9 11:50:39 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:13:12 -0600 (CST)
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/08/rsaoz.idg/
> by Ellen Messmer From...
> [LINK]
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> (IDG) -- RSA Data Security has announced the creation of an Australian
> subsidiary in an attempt to get around U.S. laws on the export of
> encryption technology.
>
> The U.S. export rules greatly restrict export of the type of
> encryption tool kits that RSA makes here in the U.S. As a result, RSA
> has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Brisbane, Australia staffed
> with foreign nationals to design a new product line of strong
> encryption products for easy export.
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> Quietly at work for some time, RSA Australia, Ltd. yesterday announced
> its first product: a tool kit for adding Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
> encryption to applications built in C. The BSAFE SSL-C tool kit was
> created by Australian cryptography experts Tim Hudson and Eric Young,
> now RSA employees.
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> "We can freely ship this tool kit just about anywhere, including into
> the U.S.," claims Scott Schnell, RSA's senior vice president for
> marketing. RSA has established its Australian operation in a manner it
> believes will not violate the encryption-export rules imposed by the
> Department of Commerce and the National Security Agency.
>
> To meet the U.S. rules, RSA Australia is staffed only with non-U.S.
> citizens that create products without any American technical support.
>
> RSA consulted extensively with these two U.S. agencies before setting
> up the Australian subsidiary.
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