EU E-Commerce Report

The EU-based Global Internet Project has published a new 
report on electronic commerce:

   http://jya.com/gip-ecomm.htm  (29K)

An excerpt on crypto policy:

1.No nation's cryptography policy can stand alone.

2. Immediate steps should be taken to solve pressing 
cryptographic needs that directly affect the global Internet.

3. Reliable and international systems for authentication 
and integrity should be established.

4. Governments and industry must respond to legitimate user 
concerns.

5. Users should be permitted to decide whether and the degree 
to which key escrow, trusted third party, or key recovery 
technologies will be desirable in their environments or not.

6. Trade barriers should not be disguised as cryptographic 
regulations.

7. Export controls on encryption should be made multilateral 
in practice and when used, focused narrowly and genuinely on 
national security threats. They should not be used as indirect 
domestic controls.

8. Governments should establish and publish the process by 
which keys will be obtained for government purposes. This 
process should include independent judicial review, time limits 
on access, reasonable notice to the key owner when this would 
not interfere with the purposes of the decryption, and 
opportunities for independent audit of compliance with legal 
process.

9. Liability for misuse of escrowed keys should be the subject 
of international understanding.

10. When key recovery is voluntarily chosen by the user, 
self-retention of key recovery information should be encouraged.

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John Young wrote:
> The EU-based Global Internet Project has published a new
> report on electronic commerce:
>    http://jya.com/gip-ecomm.htm  (29K)
> 
> An excerpt on crypto policy:
> 
> 1.No nation's cryptography policy can stand alone.
> 
> 2. Immediate steps should be taken to solve pressing
> cryptographic needs that directly affect the global Internet.
>
> 3. Reliable and international systems for authentication
> and integrity should be established.

  John Young, New World Order Schill (secret member of the New
World Order of Schills), has cleverly and deceptively given us
a pointer to the 'official release' version of the GIP report
on electronic commerce, in which point #4 purports to be:
> 4. Governments and industry must respond to legitimate user
> concerns.

  In the triple-secret *real* GIP report, as JYA knows, point #4
is as follows:
"4. No one shall buy or sell unless they have the digital implant
of the New World Order in their right hand, or in their foreheads."

> 5. Users should be permitted to decide whether and the degree
> to which key escrow, trusted third party, or key recovery
> technologies will be desirable in their environments or not.
> 
> 6. Trade barriers should not be disguised as cryptographic
> regulations.
> 
> 7. Export controls on encryption should be made multilateral
> in practice and when used, focused narrowly and genuinely on
> national security threats. They should not be used as indirect
> domestic controls.
> 
> 8. Governments should establish and publish the process by
> which keys will be obtained for government purposes. This
> process should include independent judicial review, time limits
> on access, reasonable notice to the key owner when this would
> not interfere with the purposes of the decryption, and
> opportunities for independent audit of compliance with legal
> process.
> 
> 9. Liability for misuse of escrowed keys should be the subject
> of international understanding.
> 
> 10. When key recovery is voluntarily chosen by the user,
> self-retention of key recovery information should be encouraged.

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