Germany Frees Crypto

[Putrefied Cow]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, John R T Brazier wrote:

> One other interesting thing is Point (3) of the framework: is this
> a nice way of saying that Wassenaar is dead? At least from the
> German government point of view?

I'd say no. 

The WA was, and still is serving it's purpose in the sense 
that UKUSA managed to enforce other nations to adopt their 
policies on what they should be allowed to export and where.

Very nice work by the UKUSA, I'd say.

BTW, A long time ago in Finland, I remember reading that the GSM
phones could have had strong enough crypto that the NSA couldn't
crack it, and that because of it the UKUSA forced Nokia's hand and
made them adopt a weak crypto that is easily cracked.

So essentially now every GSM phone is insecure as they can be
listened into from spy-satellites.

Is this really the case? 

Is there anything that could be done about it?

++ J