DTI to ban electronic export of crypto from the UK!

[David Swarbrick]

In message <599.899642535@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, Ian BROWN
<I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes
>> I saw a report on Friday in the Times which I thought might be a
>> retrenchment.
>> Is it available on the net?
>
>The Times is if you register: I just looked through Friday's edition and can't 
>find anything about export control [their search engine is broken at the 
>moment.] I had read the paper that day and hadn't noticed anything then either.
>
It was a report of the white paper - which I have now found.

I have to say that I find the white paper deeply suspicious. It looks
like a simple 'export' of the US policy of crippling encryption by
segmenting populations.

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