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Re: Countries that ban the use of crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Dec 8 11:03:02 2005
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, joern2473@yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:07:51 +1300
"JXrn" Schmidt <joern2473@yahoo.com> writes:
>However, there are only two countries, to the best of my knowledge, that
>outright ban cryptography: Russia and China. And even that's only a de-facto
>ban since both only require individuals to obtain a license to use
>cryptography in any way, shape or form. From what I have heard, it's nearly
>impossible for your average Joe to actually be issued such a license.
You also have to remember that the severity of Russian law is compensated for
by its non-mandatoryness. Those who care enough about complying (banks and so
on) shouldn't have much trouble getting the necessary license, everyone else
just goes ahead and uses crypto and no-one cares.
Peter.
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