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Subject: [ISN] International Cryptography Campaign Update
From: mea culpa <jericho () dimensional ! com>
Date: 1998-09-25 8:57:57
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 07:14:42 +1000
From: Greg Taylor <gtaylor@efa.org.au>
Subject: (fwd) International Cryptography Campaign Update
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International Cryptography Campaign Update
24 September 1998
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Contents
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Introduction
GILC Member Statement
Press Coverage
Industry Support
National Coordinators
Links
Introduction
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An International Campaign has been established to influence the current
round of negotiations over the Wassenaar Arrangement. Among many other
items the Wassenaar Arrangement covers restrictions on export of
cryptography from the 33 nations which are signatory to the Arrangement.
Technical experts are currently meeting in Vienna to discuss the
arrangement. Some of the technical experts are proposing that export
restrictions on strong cryptography should be tightened.
GILC Member Statement
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On 15th September Members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign issued
a statement calling on the signatories to the Wassenaar Arrangement to
remove controls over the export of cryptography. The statement argues
that according to the stated aims of the Wassenaar Declaration it should not
restrict the export of cryptography.
Press Coverage
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Since the release of the GILC Member Declaration there has been press
coverage of the campaign in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the UK
and the US.
Industry Support
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Support for the GILC Member Declaration has been expressed by 23 companies
and associations, who have "signed" the following statement:
We, the undersigned companies and associations support the Global Internet
Liberty Campaign Member Statement of 15th September 1998 calling for the
removal of cryptography export restrictions from the Wassenaar Arrangement.
If your company or association wishes to "sign" the above support statement
and you are authorised to sign statements on behalf of your company or
association, please write to <signon@efa.org.au> giving your company or
association name, web address and country.
National Coordinators
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Since the beginning of the campaign we have been searching for people to
coordinate the campaign in the 33 nations signatory to the Wassenaar
Arrangement. To date we have coordinators in 16 of the 33 nations. We are
still looking for coordinators in the remaining 17 countries. National
coordinators are listed at <http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/country.html>.
If you are interested in taking part in the campaign please contact your
national coordinator. If there is not one in your country please consider
taking on the role. If you want to, or know someone who might, please
contact the International Campaign coordinator, Michael Baker
<mbaker@pobox.com>.
Links
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The following are links to items mentioned in this update.
International Cryptography Campaign Home Page
<http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/>
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
<http://www.gilc.org/>
<http://www.gilc.nl/> [GILC European mirror]
GILC Member Statement calling for the removal of cryptography export
restrictions from the Wassenaar Arrangement
<http://www.gilc.org/crypto/wassenaar/gilc-statement-998.html>
Campaign Press Coverage
<http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/press.html>
Company and Association support for the GILC Member Declaration
<http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/support/>
Signon coordinator for support of the GILC Member Statement
<signon@efa.org.au>
National Coordinators and other country information
<http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/country.html>
International Cryptography Campaign Coordinator
<mbaker@pobox.com>
This update
<http://www.efa.org.au/wassenaar/update-980924.html>
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