From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:29:29 -0800 (PST)
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Crypto in New Zealand - an update
Message-ID: <199702020229.SAA04751@toad.com>
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Lucky Green wrote: 
> At 06:03 AM 2/2/97, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> [...]
> >The following week Andrew Mayo wrote a letter to the editor of the NBR
> >containing an eloquent defense of the use of encryption to protect personal
> >privacy.  MFAT replied to say that they were only following orders, and were
> >required by the Wassenaar agreement to restrict crypto exports:
> [...]

  MFAT doesn't put crypto in the ovens, they just turn on the gas.
 
> Just for clarification, it is the Wassenaar *arrangement* (somehow the term
> is more fitting anyway...) and it does *not* require the signatory
> countries to implement crypto export controls.
 
> Not that this will make any difference, since it would be the first time
> that a government would allow facts to stand in the way of politics.

  ...or allow 'citizens' to stand in the way of politics.

Toto