[117857] in Cypherpunks
US Crypto Policy 'Too Strict' (was Re: ECARM NEWS for September
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Sep 13 09:56:49 1999
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:29:14 -0400
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At 2:00 AM -0400 on 9/13/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
> Title: US Crypto Policy 'Too Strict'
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: 10:15 a.m. 10.Sep.99.PDT
> Source: Wired News
> Author: Steve Kettmann
> Keywords: GOVT POLICY ,EXPORT CONTROL ,ENCRYPTION SW ,ECONOMIC IMPACT
>
> Abstract/Summary:
> MUNICH, Germany -- German Interior Minister Otto Schily got this
>weekend's Internet
> Content Summit off to a lively start Friday afternoon by taking a
>none-too-subtle
> swipe at US encryption policy.
>
> Schily didn't mention the United States specifically, but made some
>unprompted
> remarks regarding the US government's heavy restrictions on encryption code
> distribution.
>
> "If you look at the technical considerations [with encryption
>code], you have no
> real possibility to control it," he said. "The criminal
>organizations will illegally
> produce systems without possibility of control. [Limits] may be useful for
> controlling your citizens, but it is not useful for fighting crime."
>
>
> Original URL:
>http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/21680.html?wnpg
>=all
>
> Added: Sun Sep 12 22:15:47 -040 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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