AW: AUCRYPTO: `Germany Frees Crypto' - do you believe it?

[Pete Chown]

Ross Anderson wrote:

> I raised the issue of the proposed EU regulation on the export of
> dual-use goods, which appears to compel member states to prohibit
> intangible exports of items on the Wassenaar list.

This is quite worrying.  In its present incarnation, no country is
*required* to prohibit the export of anything because they can grant
open general export licences.  There are actually quite a lot which have
the effect of exempting quite a lot of things from Wassenaar
altogether.  (None of them relate to crypto though.)

Is this changing then?

> How can a university in Britain collaborate
> with one in Germany if any EU regulation forbids either of them from
> sending software to the other?

Last I heard, there were no restrictions on the movement of dual-use
goods within the EU.  (In EuroSpeak this is called a "removal of goods"
rather than an "export".)  Is this now going to change too?

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