From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Subject: Re: Denning paper on crypto, EU mandatory GAK
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Greg Broiles wrote:
> dated 2/19/97) paper by Dorothy Denning re crypto and crypto
> policy/legislation.
> >>>>
> The European Commission has been preparing a proposal to establish a
> European-wide
> network of Trusted Third Parties (ETS) that would be accredited to offer
> services that support digital signatures, notarization, confidentiality, and
> data integrity.
> The trust centers, which would operate under the control of member nations,
> <<<<
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  We are seeing a globalization of what has long occurred in the
U.S., wherein the govt will 'shop' for a state with laws on the
books which are needed to screw over a citizen in a different
state, and then proceed to set them up to violate laws that
don't exist in their home state.
  In the future, we will be subjected to prosecution for violating
"international law" every time Upper Mongolia passes laws against
being left-handed, or having warts.
-- 
Toto
"The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre"
http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html