Matthew Gream said...
Well, fuck that for thinking I was living under a less restrictive regime -- and I can say goodbye to an international market for my software.
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In short: Anything cryptographic, they want to know about, and they want to know about it on a per end-user basis. They advise against distribution on the "Internet" and any distribution without prior approval otherwise there could be "problems".
Matthew.
I am more than a little concerned by this as I have just put PGP source and executables on my experimental WWW server (Australian based). I announced it on talk.politics.crypto yesterday before I read this post. I thought I was doing a service by providing a faster download for Aussie users (downloading big files from outside Aus is painfully slow). I hope I'm not taking an unacceptable risk with my temporary residence visa :-( I too made the mistake of assuming that the Aussie regulations were more relaxed (like those of the UK). Oh well for what it's worth, here's the address: http://rschp2.anu.edu.au:8080/crypt.html Sherry (waiting for those ASIO spooks :-)