From: "Robin Whittle" <firstpr@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:42:09 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: OECD crypto policy draft guidelines
Message-ID: <199612091541.CAA14288@oznet02.ozemail.com.au>
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There is an ad-hoc group of government representatives (called an
"expert group" actually) working on an OECD set of cryptography policy
guidelines.

They have a big five day meeting coming up starting 12 December in
Paris.

A September draft of their guidelines was leaked and put on a WWW 
site in Austria: 

   http://www.quintessenz.at/Netzteil/OECD/index.html 

as a Word 6 file.

I got it, turned it into HTML and put it on my site with comments.

   http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr

Recently, someone from the OECD crypto secretariat emailed me 
indicating they had read my comments and found them reasonably 
constructive.

I have since added more comments, which I emailed to the secretariate
person.  If anyone has something constructive to convey to them, email
me and I will put you in touch with them.

I understand there will be an article on the debate in the next 
weekly edition of The European newspaper.

The people at Quintessenz apparently have a later draft which they are
scanning and will put up on their site ASAP.

- Robin




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