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Date: 1998-08-15
Campaign: Crypto ist keine Waffe
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Die Campaign von Electronic Frontiers Australia ist wieder
ein Stück weitergekommen. Etwa in der Hälfte der 33
Wassenaar Unterzeichnerstaaten haben sich bereits nationale
Koordinatoren etabliert. Ziel ist es, dass
Verschlüsselungsprogramme, die für den Schutz der
Privatsphäre wie für den freien Handel im Internet
unumgänglich sind, von der Liste genehmigungspflichtiger
"Dual-Use goods" gestrichen werden.
Die Koordination in Österreich liegt bei dem Ihnen gerade
vorliegenden q/depesche/ndienst.
Wir könnten Unterstützung brauchen, weil diese Arbeit in
zunehmendem Masse Zeit verschlingt.
Dass Wassenaar im Zentrum Wiens liegt & was es dort zu sehen
gibt, erfahren Sie am Montag in einer Reportage.
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LITTLE-KNOWN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT MAY DETERMINE INTERNET
PRIVACY
by Andy Oram American Reporter Correspondent
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Half-way around the world, a movement
has started that may shake the security policies of nations
on almost every continent. Electronic Frontiers Australia, a
civil liberties organization focusing on electronic
networks, has announced a campaign to free public
cryptography from an international agreement called the
Wassenaar Arrangement.
The matter at hand is whether governments will continue to
regard cryptography as a hazardous material to be locked up
by defense agencies and transported only by carefully
inspected carriers. This is the historic view of encryption
as a munition, harking back at least to the "loose lips sink
ships" days of World War II. The view persists in U.S.
Department of Commerce export controls, and internationally
in the Wassenaar Arrangement.
Or should governments recognize that cryptography is an
everyday part of computer use, online commerce, and even
basic protection for the computing and network
infrastructure? That is what cryptography has become in the
wake of mathematical advances of recent decades, driven
forward by the winds of fast, low-cost computers and the
widespread but vulnerably open architecture of the Internet.
Civil liberties groups around the world like the EFA, along
with businesses engaging in electronic commerce or offering
computer products for sale, have been trying to enlighten
government policy-makers over the past several years to the
importance of free-flowing cryptography products. The new
EFA Wassenaar campaign aims directly at a roadblock to the
free use of cryptography.
full text
http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/andyo/ar/crypto_wassenaar.html
relayed by Andy Oram, Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org
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