[107351] in Cypherpunks
RE: RSA Down Under
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Tue Jan 12 01:41:34 1999
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:31:52 -0800
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
I'm really curious over the choice of Australia rather than New Zealand. At
least New Zealand has a government that *should* be sympathetic to
cryptographic freedom -- that is as soon as they solve their small problem
of their overzealous security agency. BTW, someone down there fix that
*soon*, and we'll relocate Silicon Valley to Auckland after Y2K.
Matt
> RSA's Australian crypto announcement should be taken with a
> grain of salt. Australia may have somewhat more lenient
> encryption export practices than the US, but it is in fact
> closely aligned with the US on most such issues.
