[107974] in Cypherpunks
Australian Crypto? (Re: Export ban kills Nexus' WHO deal)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Jan 30 16:30:30 1999
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901292228420.6274-100000@khercs.chipware.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:21:00 -0800
To: cypherpunks@openpgp.net
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
I see that this message is being sent to "cypherpunks@openpgp.net". Is
this a full-fledged equal to the other Cypherpunks Distributed Remailers,
like cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com, and
cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com?
If so, when was this announced? CDR operators should announce their
existence and their policies when they become part of the system.
I'm adding cypherpunks@cyberpass.net to the distribution above, just in
case the cypherpunks@openpgp.net is not fully distributed by the other CDR
sites.
On to the post itself:
At 10:23 PM -0800 1/29/99, Max Inux wrote:
>SillyConValleyNEWS - http://www.sillyconvalley.com
>
>THE AGE
>
> Export ban kills Nexus' WHO deal
>
> By SUELETTE DREYFUS
>
> THE directors of Sydney e-commerce software firm Nexus Solutions
> Pty Ltd prepared to pop the champagne corks when they landed a
....
> Then everything fell apart.
>
> According to Nexus managing director Therese Bateman, the
> Department of Defences Signals Directorate (DSD) told them verbally
> that it would refuse to grant an export permit for their 448-bit
> encryption product.
...
> The Government only permitted a weak, 40-bit version of NTrust, to
> be exported but, according to Bateman, this was almost pointless
> since the whole purpose of buying an encryption product was keep
> data secure.
OK, so assuming this story is true, JUST WHAT IS THE EXPORT POLICY OF
AUSTRALIA?
And how does this square with the RSA Australia deal, whereby "Eric and
Tim" (the _other_ Eric and Tim, needless to say) will be free to export
stuff related to SSLeay from Australia?
If Australia is an unencumbered crypto export haven, explain the above story.
I must be missing something.
--Tim May
Y2K -- Where were you when the lights went out?
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