At 02:39 AM 2/18/97 +0100, you (Ulf M=F6ller) wrote:

Swedish Datateknik 97-02 features an article about how COCOM/ Wassenaar Arrangement effects Swedish crypto exports.

I wonder if someone whose Swedish is better than mine could summarize the article? It is at http://www.et.se/datateknik/arkiv/97-02/5.html

Datateknik 97-01 reports about pressure for crypto regulations from the US, but also from the EU and OECD [the OECD turned out not to endorse key escrow shortly after the article was published]. The Swedish government is currently collecting facts and opinions; so far it remains an open question which standpoint it will take. England is preparing a law similar to the French one, while there are policy discussions similar to the Swedish going on in Germany and Denmark, says G=F6ran Axelsson, Sweden's representative in the EU's IT security body.

The Japanese are not far behind. Using the emotional -- and often successful -- pretext of "anti-terrorism," (the subway gassing allegedly committed by the "Aum Cult"), the Japanese Ministry of Justice (JMOJ) is about to propose a sweeping new wiretapping/electronic eavesdropping statut= e -- which insiders predict will sail through the Diet (national legislature)=