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Re: South Africa moves to increase Net-surveillance, limit crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clive D. W. Feather)
Tue Aug 14 15:50:23 2001
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:34:40 +0100
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: "Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@davros.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010813120838.A2040@cluebot.com>
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In article <20010813120838.A2040@cluebot.com>, Declan McCullagh=20
<declan@well.com> writes
>* Internet providers may not "provide any telecommunication service which
>does not have the capacity to be monitored." A provider is responsible for
>"decrypting any communication encrypted by a customer if the facility for
>encryption was provided by the service provider concerned." This represents
>an attack on liberty, privacy, and autonomy, and is akin to anti-encryption
>rules in Russia a few years ago. Though as a practical matter, a lot would
>seem to turn on the definition of "provide." Does that mean giving someone
>an SSL-enabled web browser? IPv6 software?
I suspect that it's aimed at link-layer encryption. In other words,=20
where the ISP/telco runs one end of the encryption themselves, but the=20
most convenient point to tap happens to be on the encrypted part of the=20
link.
Given the requirement to tap, this isn't an unreasonable addition.
>* Internet providers cannot reveal wiretaps. "No person who is or was
>concerned in the performance of any function in terms of this Act, may
>disclose any information which he or she obtained in the performance of
>such a function" (except to officials or courts).
That's a fairly standard requirement.
--=20
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