[107356] in Cypherpunks
Re: RSA Down Under
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeradonah lives)
Tue Jan 12 06:48:49 1999
To: mgering@ecosystems.net
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: jeradonah@juno.com (jeradonah lives)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:36:30 EST
Reply-To: jeradonah@juno.com (jeradonah lives)
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:31:52 -0800 Matthew James Gering
<mgering@ecosystems.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>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.
hmmmm, pay attention. the us govt has a wee little tiff going with the
govt of new zealand over their presumed independence and their
unwillingness to accept things such as us nuclear aircraft carriers...
the announcement did say that this move was vetted by the clinadmin...
ac
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