--- begin forwarded text Approved-By: Bert-Jaap Koops Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:28:12 +0200 Reply-To: Bert-Jaap Koops Sender: Mailinglist about existing and proposed laws and regulations on cryptography From: Bert-Jaap Koops Subject: Crypto Law Survey updated - version 22.2 To: CRYPTOLAW-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL I have updated my Crypto Law Survey to version 22.2. http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ ============================================================ NEWS France has enacted the first law in the world that raises the maximum punishment for a crime when cryptography was used to prepare of facilitate a crime. ============================================================ AFRICA * Egypt ('02 mention of regulatory intention) * Ghana (no controls) * Kenya (no controls) * Mauritius (no controls) * Morocco ('02 mention of regulatory intention) * Rwanda ('98 report mentions regulatory intention) * South Africa (decryption order) * Tunisia (import and domestic regulations) EUROPE * France (elaborate new law, including raising punishments for crypto-enhanced crimes) * Russia (FAPSI > FSB) * United Kingdom (new OGEL) ASIA * Singapore (export controls) Any additions you may provide are greatly welcomed. Bert-Jaap Koops Tilburg University 16 August 2004 -------------------------- You may forward this message in its entirety. -------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to with in the body of the message "UNSUBSCRIBE CRYPTOLAW-L". To subscribe to this mailing list, send a message to with in the body of the message "SUBSCRIBE CRYPTOLAW-L". When you change your e-mail address, please unsubscribe the old address and subscribe the new one. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'