DTI White Paper on Export Control

[David Swarbrick]

In message <199807031259.NAA07752@penelope.ftel.co.uk>, Ian G Batten
<I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> writes

>I presume, though, that the main reason the government are
>keen to pass laws `preventing' the export of certain things
>electronically is that it'll give them carte blanche to
>engage in an ELINT operation to actually find the stuff
>being exported.

I think the idea is that the more such technology is isolated within
individual nations, the greater the probability of preventing any one or
more systems of cryptography becoming standard.

If I cannot export to the US, and they cannot export to me, then we will
notbe able to use a common system, and no system will develop and be
used.

>
>I constantly wonder who is a bigger threat to our liberty:
>the politicians who want to pass the repressive laws, the
>security services who encourage them or the civil servants
>who obey orders.
>
>ian
>
>

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