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Date: 1998-08-15
Campaign: Crypto ist keine Waffe-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ein Stück weitergekommen. Etwa in der Hälfte der 33 Wassenaar Unterzeichnerstaaten haben sich bereits nationale Koordinatoren etabliert. Ziel ist es, dass Verschlüsselungsprogramme, die für den Schutz der Privatsphäre wie für den freien Handel im Internet unumgänglich sind, von der Liste genehmigungspflichtiger "Dual-Use goods" gestrichen werden. Die Koordination in Österreich liegt bei dem Ihnen gerade vorliegenden q/depesche/ndienst. Wir könnten Unterstützung brauchen, weil diese Arbeit in zunehmendem Masse Zeit verschlingt. Dass Wassenaar im Zentrum Wiens liegt & was es dort zu sehen gibt, erfahren Sie am Montag in einer Reportage. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- LITTLE-KNOWN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT MAY DETERMINE INTERNET PRIVACY by Andy Oram American Reporter Correspondent CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Half-way around the world, a movement has started that may shake the security policies of nations on almost every continent. Electronic Frontiers Australia, a civil liberties organization focusing on electronic networks, has announced a campaign to free public cryptography from an international agreement called the Wassenaar Arrangement. The matter at hand is whether governments will continue to regard cryptography as a hazardous material to be locked up by defense agencies and transported only by carefully inspected carriers. This is the historic view of encryption as a munition, harking back at least to the "loose lips sink ships" days of World War II. The view persists in U.S. Department of Commerce export controls, and internationally in the Wassenaar Arrangement. Or should governments recognize that cryptography is an everyday part of computer use, online commerce, and even basic protection for the computing and network infrastructure? That is what cryptography has become in the wake of mathematical advances of recent decades, driven forward by the winds of fast, low-cost computers and the widespread but vulnerably open architecture of the Internet. Civil liberties groups around the world like the EFA, along with businesses engaging in electronic commerce or offering computer products for sale, have been trying to enlighten government policy-makers over the past several years to the importance of free-flowing cryptography products. The new EFA Wassenaar campaign aims directly at a roadblock to the free use of cryptography. full text http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/andyo/ar/crypto_wassenaar.html relayed by Andy Oram, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://www.cpsr.org -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-08-15 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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