[119057] in Cypherpunks
Re: Danish Justice Minister encourages private Crypto use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Wed Oct 13 20:08:55 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:49:48 -0400
Message-Id: <199910132349.TAA16302@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <Pine.LNX.3.96.991013082727.32762A-100000@apollon.datashopper.dk>, on
10/13/99
at 03:02 AM, Bo Elkjaer <boo@apollon.datashopper.dk> said:
>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
I would be very interested in reading a copy of your article as I am sure
others here would be also. I will be glad to pass it on to several other
relevant mailing lists that I am on.
tks,
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