The US Wassenaar initiative is an attempt to deny the public not only
all future strong crypto developments, but all existing ones. As
today's message from Denmark makes clear, the freedom-hating
bureaucrats are threatening to prosecute a citizen merely for
publishing PGP on his web page.
Let's
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Subject: Wassenaar and the dumming of New Zealand
See Peter Gutme
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
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> I think that the most important thing here is just a very simple as nearly
> bombproof as we know how to build encryption/decryption program whose file
> formats I can understand after reading one page, and whose algorithms I
> can code correctly i
[If you know of people who may be interested in this meeting, please
feel free to forward this message to them. Please note that the
deadline for payments is only a few days off.]
The next luncheon meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of New
York (DCS-NY), will be held on Tuesday, December 15
I think that the most important thing here is just a very simple as nearly
bombproof as we know how to build encryption/decryption program whose file
formats I can understand after reading one page, and whose algorithms I
can code correctly in my favorite language in under a week's work. The
mos
Carl Ellison wrote:
> There is so little awareness on the public's part today about crypto
> that I would be surprised if a mass movement of the people speaking
> to Congress would come out at all in our favor.
>
There is not enough money or air-time available now to make the public
more sympathe
At 6:09 PM -0500 12/4/98, Steve Bellovin commented on the CipherSaber web
site http://ciphersaber.gurus.com:
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>I'm glad the site is up, but for many purposes it solves the wrong problem.
>Encryption algorithms are easy to write, or even to type in or scan from
>printed programs. But what's inter
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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:14:13 -0500 (EST)
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Looks like he [Aaron] has been successful. No one is talking about the
extortive
quality of sending out the commerce mini
We spoke with Igor at the WA today to ask about the implementation
report Caspar Bowden said on UK Crypto would be coming shortly.
It seems that Dirk Weicke, the person preparing it (whom Caspar
queried), is out sick and won't return to work until Thursday.
Another person working on the report,
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:58:49 +1000
Subject: Wassenaar changes
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I spoke this afternoon with one of the Australian delegates at the
Wassenaar meeting, an offi
One thing which came to me recently when I was trying to figure out what sort
of gun the US held to the rest of the world's head to get them to agree to
this: Could the Wassenaar outcome have been a sign of Echelon in action?
Consider this: Delegates from each country have been travelling to V
I wonder what effect the Wassenaar politics have to non-member countries
of that agreement and how much those other countries support these US
crypto regulations? As I understand Wassenaar is mostly meant for export
of dual-use goods, not so much internal use although that is somewhat
regulated a
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Lots of sensible people on cypherpunks have made an excellent point before,
but Nelson Minar has said it quite succinctly in the message below, with an
outstanding example from Sun, in the post that I'm including here from Perry
Metzger's cryptography list.
Th
John Gilmore wrote:
> PS: I particularly like Ambassador Aaron's characterization that
> this new development will help US industry, by censoring foreign crypto
> publishers in the same way the US government censors US publishers.
> A giant step forward for freedom and commerce everywhere, eh Mr
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