Lucky Green wrote:

At 06:03 AM 2/2/97, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: [...]

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The following week Andrew Mayo wrote a letter to the editor of the NBR containing an eloquent defense of the use of encryption to protect personal privacy. MFAT replied to say that they were only following orders, and were required by the Wassenaar agreement to restrict crypto exports: [...]

MFAT doesn't put crypto in the ovens, they just turn on the gas.

Just for clarification, it is the Wassenaar *arrangement* (somehow the term is more fitting anyway...) and it does *not* require the signatory countries to implement crypto export controls.

Not that this will make any difference, since it would be the first time that a government would allow facts to stand in the way of politics.

...or allow 'citizens' to stand in the way of politics. Toto