Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?

Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:07:00 +0100

On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 04:23:15PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> Didn't the French sign the Wassenaar Agreement? (www.wassenaar.org)
> that means they would also need to change their laws to allow the
> "encryption that is in the public domain". Ofcourse, that entire
> sentence renders wassenaar useless, so prob none will implement that
> rule.
>
> Politcs, ugh :)
>

The Wassenaar agreement basically sais that if you allow export of
plutonium, you have to tell the other Wassenaar nations x days in
advance so that they can respond to the threat.

astor

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 Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway
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