[5263] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Wed Jul 28 15:11:09 1999
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: 28 Jul 1999 20:56:26 +0200
In-Reply-To: Eugene Leitl's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT)"
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> > Nations do not control distribution of intangible items. While
> > I recognize that this issue is controversial, unless we address
> > this situation, use of the Internet to distribute encryption products
> > will render Wassenaar's controls immaterial."
>
> I just love this sentence. So, let's create unenforcible legislation,
> and then try to pave over all the world in the attempt to make reality
> comply. Name's Janet Reno, huh?
>
> What's worse, the gullible Germans will probably heel.
They will not. Especially the ministry of economy is well aware that
the US spies on the german industry, that strong crypto is the only
protection against it, and that an open-source development model for
security infrastructure is the only one providing a high enough
confidence in the security of a product (and providing a
Wassenaar-loophole though the public domain exemption on it's way,
which they also are very aware of).
Andreas
--
"We show that all proposed quantum bit commitment schemes are insecure because
the sender, Alice, can almost always cheat successfully by using an
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type of attack and delaying her measurement until she
opens her commitment." ( http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9603004 )
