Swedish policy paper on key/message escrow
Today's "Svenska Dagbladet" has an article on a policy paper released by the Swedish Foreign Office that follows the American agenda. "Only simple encryption that is easy to decypher should be sold outside the country without restriction." Also, "it is required that capability is created for legal access to clear-text or keys." (My ugly, but precise, translation from the article's quote from the report.) The report authors suggest a complicated structure with key depositories, "preferably privately owned" that "can be granted control over all of the encryption keys that are used on the Internet." Police and proscecutors can obtain these encryption keys as needed to access secret documents. The report has been widely criticized. Martin Minow minow@apple.com
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Today's "Svenska Dagbladet" has an article on a policy paper released by the Swedish Foreign Office that follows the American agenda. "Only simple encryption that is easy to decypher should be sold outside the country without restriction."
See? Even other countries are agreeing that crypto is munitions. i.e. - They all want to sell versions of their 'old stuff' to people in other countries, so that Big Violent People can continue to profit off of, support and encourage Little Violent People. Anybody know any Drug Barons or International Terrorists (TM) who can't get themselves and their lackeys all of the firepower they require to 'take care of business'? Anyone think crypto-munitions will not follow the same pattern of being taken out of the hands of hands of the 'potential drug baron and international terroist' average citizens, and reserved for those who have self-actualized their dreams and actually _become_ drug barons and international terrorists? Government oppressed free-enterprise at it's finest... TruthMonger
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