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Re: From NewsScan: new EU export rules...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Fri Apr 28 14:54:18 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:20:19 -0700
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:13:26PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> >From NewsScan Daily:
>
> NEW EU ENCRYPTION EXPORT RULE LOOSER THAN U.S.
> The European Union has agreed to relax the rules for exporting encryption
> software, lifting almost all restrictions on encryption exports among the 15
> EU countries and 10 other countries -- the U.S., Japan, Canada, Switzerland,
> Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland -- which
> together make up over 80% of the world market.
good, good..
> The new EU rules eliminate
> the need to secure approval from national licensing bodies and do away with
> security checks for all encryption products with the exception of so-called
> crypto-analytic tools, which can be used to test systems and crack codes.
What? That's a new one!
Could it be that certain large organizations(GSM) who have been
embarrased(A5) added this as a way to discourage/prevent exposure
of their weak crypto?
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Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
