[108033] in Cypherpunks
Re: Australian Crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin McLellan)
Tue Feb 2 05:04:42 1999
In-Reply-To: <v03130316b2d9263a866d@[209.66.100.116]>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:49:23 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Cc: aucrypto@suburbia.net
Reply-To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
THE AGE (AU) reported:
<snip>
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.
<snip>
Tim May <tcmay@got.net> asked:
>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 don't think anyone has ever suggested that Australia is an
unencumbered crypto export haven.
On one hand, Australia has traditionally allowed the free "export"
(i.e., network download) of strong free crypto, including PGPi and SSLeay.
