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RE: Update on New Zealand crypto policy
Need help: Can anyone get to this URL?
Ern
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Sent: Saturday, January 24, 1998 4:20 PM
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Subject: Update on New Zealand crypto policy
As part of my recent effort to prepare a useful home page after
2 years of
having instead a mini text adventure, I've finally got around to
finishing off
the web page containing the recent history of, and current state
of, New
Zealands crypto export policy as decided by several intelligence
agencies and
a supporting cast of bungling bureaucrats. This policy has
resulted in New
Zealand enjoying the dubious distinction of having the strictest
export
controls on earth, with everything ranging from crypto hardware
down to
software, library books, computer magazines, and journals being
restricted
from export. It's not even possible for a university to publish
academic
research without prior permission from a government agency, and
the
requirements for obtaining this permission are structured to
ensure that they
can never be fulfilled. You can find the information on:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/policy/
The page also contains links to a sizeable collection of
never-before-
published documents including correspondence with relevant
government
agencies, and media reports on the situation.
If you're going to send me mail about this, please note that
I'll be at Usenix
in San Antonio for the next week, so it'll take awhile for me to
reply. My
PGP key's at the bottom of my home page if you need it.
Peter.