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Re: From NewsScan: new EU export rules...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Apr 28 15:34:28 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:06:53 -0400
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In message <20000428112019.B15322@slack.lne.com>, Eric Murray writes:
>
>> 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?
>
The WSJ story said that "France demanded this exception because the
country is concerned that some of its communications could be vulnerable
to hacking by Corsican terrorists."
