Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:57:57 -0600 (MDT)
From: mea culpa <jericho@dimensional.com>
To: InfoSec News <isn@sekurity.org>
Subject: [ISN] International Cryptography Campaign Update 


Forwarded From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>

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Courtesy of Cryptography List.

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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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