From: Alex de Joode <usura@replay.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:03:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: IP: Crypt Wars, UK-Style
Message-ID: <199810291416.PAA15950@replay.com>
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In article <199810290400.UAA14769@netcom13.netcom.com> some1 wrote:

:    CRYPT WARS, UK-STYLE

:      UK's Privacy International has awarded the Department of Trade and
: Industry a Big Brother award for its contribution to invading privacy. The
: DTI wants all companies offering encrypted services to be licensed, which
: means using a third party holding keys to the user's encryption code.
: Encryption licensed outside the UK will not be recognised, and thus would
: not be protected by law. And only the recommendation of senior police is
: needed to get a key - users aren't allowed to know if their key has been
: given to the police. More Big Brother awards at http://www.privacy.org/pi/  

Hmm would like to see on which EC directive/law they base this exclusion
of 'foreign' (ie EC) TTP's.

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         'A little paranoia can lengthen your life'