[563] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Re[2]: use of RSA outside US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Fri Mar 31 16:01:34 1995
To: "Tom Zmudzinski" <zmudzint@cc.ims.disa.mil>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
cc: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:26:14 EST."
<9502317966.AA796674604@CC.IMS.DISA.MIL>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 18:53:01 +1000
From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@dxal18.cern.ch>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Of course there's another aspect to this: If Jonathon Tidswell lives
> in one of those countries that outlaw all private cryptography unless
> the local police-state has a copy of the keys (France & England head
> this list BTW), he's breaking _local_ law if he ever uses his new toy.
Incorrect, cryptography is banned in the UK over public access frequencies.
This means you can't scramble a satelite for one of the UK public bands
without the govt. being able to decrypt it. It also stops you from sending
encrypted ham radio.
If the UK govt. has not prosecuted the IRA for using crypto systems they
are not going to prosecute civilians with bona fide uses. Limited crypto
use is an advantage to spy agencies since the people using it identify
themselves as being of potential interest.
France is a different matter. Unless you have diplomatic immunity don't
use crypto without permission there. Microsoft have to sell a different version
of windows for workgroups for example. But this is not the case in the UK.
Phill Hallam-Baker
