Re: Lobbying for Cryptoprivacy, non-U.S.

> In smaller countries this will be easier since its doubtful
> small governments can set up a spook/chip-maker axis to rival the
> NSA/Mykotronx/VLSI axis in the U.S.  In fact probably only the U.S.,
> cooperating major European countries and Japan have such a capability.

what about Canada?  or has it been absorbed into the US?  :-)

Russia probably has the chip-making skills (and, certainly, the spookish
ones) to fit, but they probably count as a ``cooperating major European
countr[y]'' now.

> Russia probably has the chip-making skills (and, certainly, the spookish
> ones) to fit, but they probably count as a ``cooperating major European
> countr[y]'' now.

Uh... Based on my experience they probably count as "a number of
not-very-cooperating European countries" ;-)

	Julf