NODE 919134aeRe: Crypto in New Zealand - an update
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:31:24 -0800 (PST)
At 06:03 AM 2/2/97, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
[...]
>The following week Andrew Mayo wrote a letter to the editor of the NBR
>containing an eloquent defense of the use of encryption to protect personal
>privacy. MFAT replied to say that they were only following orders, and were
>required by the Wassenaar agreement to restrict crypto exports:
[...]
Just for clarification, it is the Wassenaar *arrangement* (somehow the term
is more fitting anyway...) and it does *not* require the signatory
countries to implement crypto export controls.
Not that this will make any difference, since it would be the first time
that a government would allow facts to stand in the way of politics.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and
violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi
NODE 0c9199cbRe: Crypto in New Zealand - an update
Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:26:05 -0800 (PST)
Lucky Green wrote:
> At 06:03 AM 2/2/97, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> [...]
> >The following week Andrew Mayo wrote a letter to the editor of the NBR
> >containing an eloquent defense of the use of encryption to protect personal
> >privacy. MFAT replied to say that they were only following orders, and were
> >required by the Wassenaar agreement to restrict crypto exports:
> [...]
MFAT doesn't put crypto in the ovens, they just turn on the gas.
> Just for clarification, it is the Wassenaar *arrangement* (somehow the term
> is more fitting anyway...) and it does *not* require the signatory
> countries to implement crypto export controls.
> Not that this will make any difference, since it would be the first time
> that a government would allow facts to stand in the way of politics.
...or allow 'citizens' to stand in the way of politics.
Toto