DTI White Paper on Export Control

[David Swarbrick]

In message <nlhYJSAlXVo1EwbN@reporters.net>, T Bruce Tober
<octobersdad@reporters.net> writes
>In message <NzNykIAmJHo1Ew+l@swarb.demon.co.uk>, David Swarbrick
><david@swarb.demon.co.uk> writes
>>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.
>
>Showing what total incompetent, unknowledgable idiots they are. We all
>know (and so do they) that pgp is the de facto standard around the
>world.

I wish it were. The problem is that PGP is licensed outside the US only
for non-commercial use. It is not clear to me that th ecompany which
owns it can or will license its use by commercial organisations outside
the US. I would be very pleased to hear that they did provide such
licences.

What PGP does also, is to demonstrate the intellectual dishonesty of
trying to split off digital signatures and associated guaranteeing
functions, from encryption functions. In these matters there are always
mathematical complications, but in principle the one is merely the
reverse use of sender and receivers keys. Systems which complicate this
seem designed merely to split off the 'nice' certification from the
'nasty' privacy.
 
>
>They can't, and shouldn't try to, stop it.
agreed

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