Subject: Re: Shared libraries and crypt
To: None <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl, sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 03/21/1994 14:28:00
sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) wrote:
[Olaf Seibert, i.e. me wrote:]
> On the contrary; I would urge all usanians to ignore this stupid regulation,
> so that it will be revoked when the powers in force finally realise
> how rididulous it is.
>
> Well, it's not *your* butt who could wind up in prison over this...
Unfortunately for me, that is not entirely true. The Dutch government
is (thinking of) trying to sneak in a nasty little change in the
telecommunications act, one in a batch of unrelated other changes. The
effect of this one is that encrypted communications with an unlicensed
crypto method will be illegal. And you only get a license if the
government can listen in (i.e, the encryption is very weak or you give
them the keys).
And you thought Clipper was bad.
-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl
\X/ An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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