[107428] in Cypherpunks
India may prohibit use of US software for finance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Jan 13 20:34:36 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:07:12 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: India may prohibit use of US software for finance
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 13 Jan 1999 19:08:55 -0500
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It appears the Indian government has become concerned about
U.S. cryptographic crippleware hurting Indian financial institutions,
and may require locally developed software with strong crypto.
See:
http://www.economictimes.com/120199/lead2.htm
Perry
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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