Re: Germany Frees Crypto

Peter Haefner has provided an English translation of the full German statement, "Cornerstones of German Encryption Policy": http://jya.com/de-crypto-all.htm

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

Colleagues Many thanks for translation; saves the DTI purse. Policy looks very similar to ours (DTI). Nigel

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/03/99 at 02:00 PM, John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As someone working on an Echelon story asked elsewhere, just what >strength of crypto can NSA crack these days. Well, considering the vast resources of the NSA and current export restrictions I would gues

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

David Conrad wrote: >> 5. The Federal Government attaches importance to international >>cooperation on encryption policy. It encourages market-driven, >>open standards and interoperable systems and will work to >>strengthen multilateral and bilateral cooperation. > >Does this mean th

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

Hi, > 5. The Federal Government attaches importance to international >cooperation on encryption policy. It encourages market-driven, >open standards and interoperable systems and will work to >strengthen multilateral and bilateral cooperation. Does this mean the German government wi

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

The really interesting thing about this is that Germany does not seem to demand that a criminal suspect decrypt anything, even with a warrant/subpoena. Neither does Germany make use of crypto a separate criminal offense when used to evade prosecution for a more traditional crime. Is there some poi

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

Shalom Avital wrote on ukcrypto: > I value the information, which looks too good to be true. > I thank in advance for an English translation, if somebody is willing to > take care of that. The text is rather lengthy. I'll try to give a translation of the actual framework ("Eckpunkte" in German

Re: Assigning Roles to Strangers

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We are investigating the use of public key certificates, either x509, SPKI > or other, to establish trust among two `strangers` (parties without a prior > long term relationship). We will appreciate any feedback, and are looking > forward to seriou

Re: IBM MP - error in site, our meaning of open, standard etc

-- Thanks to the information and corrections Amir Herzberg provided, I have corrected my summary of IBM's proposal in The remarkable common sense of the IBM proposal has encouraged me to change the headings on that web page to something