Germany Frees Crypto

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 12:09 PM 6/10/1999 +0100, Brian Gladman wrote:

[snip]
>---------------------
>"3.      For reasons relating to the security of the state, the economy and
>society, the Federal Government considers it indispensable that German
>manufacturers be capable of developing and manufacturing secure and powerful
>encryption products. It will take steps to improve the international
>competitiveness of this sector."
>
>Germany will provide strong encryption products for the international
>market.  Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Wassenaar and a clear
>indication that Germany will join the growing group of nations that will
>seek to remove export controls on cryptographic products.

[snip]

Perhaps this helps explain why it seems to be taking so long for the EU to
implement Wassenaar.

As I have observed before, all that Wassenaar requires of its members is to
put some crypto products on the control list:  they can freely permit
export of anything they want without committing any breach of the arrangement.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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