[119024] in Cypherpunks
Re: Danish Justice Minister encourages private Crypto use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bo Elkjaer)
Wed Oct 13 03:15:59 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:36:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bo Elkjaer <boo@apollon.datashopper.dk>
To: Pelle Braendgaard <pelle@aquamedia.net>
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> ENCRYPTION IS ONLY PROTECTION
> If Danish citizens and companies want to secure themselves against illegal
> tapping of phones, fax and e-mail, then there is only one safe method:
> Encryption!
Ah, but the journalist didn't hear all he said - or maybe didn't
understand it. Minister of truth and justice Frank Jensen
encouraged use of encryption, but accordlingly admitted, that
plans are under way to restrict use of strong crypto in Denmark (EU?) -
and only allow breakable crypto or crypto with backdoors. "The authorities
need to have access to the encrypted data - with court orders".
Go figure. Encryption is just his fig-leave for the moment, because he
can't admit to any knowledge of global interception of communications
without making liars of himself and the entire government.
I'm going to strip that fig-leave of him tomorrow.
I am preparing an article with more details on how the danish government
and the EU plans to restrict use of strong encryption within a very close
timeframe for my paper for tomorrow.
If its of any interest I will see if I can have it translated and post it
here?
Bo Elkjaer, Denmark
> This was said by Justice Minister Frank Jensen (Social Democratic Party)
> today after a conference about Intelligence agencies and the Echelon
> problem. He insisted that none of the agencies under his ministry took part
> in illegal wiretapping or were affiliated with Foreign Intelligence
> networks. The only thing he knows about Echelon is what he's read in the
> press, he said. He wouldn't comment on the Defence Intelligence Agency
> (FET) or the military listening post on the south coast of Amager (Island
> of the coast of Copenhagen), that the Scottish journalist Duncan Campell
> claims to be part of the American-British-Australian-New Zealand
> intelligence network, that goes by the name Echelon. This is part of the
> Defence Minister Hans Haekkerup's (SDP) portfolio he said. Frank Jensen
> directly encourages Danes, who want to secure them selves against
> electronic surveillance to use Cryptography from sources that are trusted.
> That is the only guarantee he could offer.
>
> - Danske Nyheder pr. 99.10.12 (Tirsdag) -
> * Set, hoert og laest af Dille og Leif paa BLA*net *
>
> KRYPTERING ENESTE BESKYTTELSE
> Hvis danske borgere og virksomheder vil sikre sig mod ulovlig aflytning
> af telefoner, fax og e-post, saa er der kun en sikker metode: kryptering!
> Det sagde justitsminister Frank Jensen (S) i dag efter et samraad om
> efterretningsvirksomhed og Echelon-problemet. Han slog fast, at ingen
> af de tjenester, der stod under hans ministerium deltog i ulovlig
> aflytning, eller var tilsluttet udenlandske aflytningsnetvaerk. Det
> eneste han kendte til Echelon var, hvad han havde laest i pressen, sagde
> han. Han ville ikke udtale sig om Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste
> eller den militaere lyttepost paa sydkysten af Amager, som den skotske
> journalist Duncan Campell har udpeget som vaerende et led i det
> amerikansk-britisk-australsk-Newzealanske efterretningsamarbejde, der
> siges at operere under navnet Echelon. Det hoerte under forsvarsminister
> Hans Haekkerup (S), sagde han. Frank Jensen opfordrede direkte danskere,
> der ville sikre sig mod elektronisk overvaagning at bruge kryptering fra
> kilder, de stoler paa. Det var den eneste garanti, han kunne give.
>
>
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