German Official Pleas for Strong Encryption
Donald Weightman
dweightman at Radix.Net
Tue Jul 8 07:42:29 PDT 1997
Reuters (as picked up in today's FINANCIAL TIMES) reports that German
economics minister Gunter Rexrodt called for loosening the restrictions on
strong encryption. Speaking yesterday at a European ministerial conference
on global integration, he said "Users can only protect themselves against
having data manipulated, destroyed, or spied on through the use of strong
encryption procedures."
Hmmm: seems like there's a trend among Certain Global Opinion Makers that
some people -- maybe the financial markets? -- need good crypto: compare
last week's ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES editorials. Anyone know how the
new German legislation deals with encryption?
cheers
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Donald Weightman
dweightman at radix.net
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