Koop's Crypto Law Survey updated - v. 14.1 (FW)

[Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>]

From: "Bert-Jaap Koops" <E.J.Koops@kub.nl>
Organization: Tilburg University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:04:37 MET
Subject: Crypto Law Survey updated - version 14.1


I have updated my Crypto Law Survey to version 14.1.
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm

INTERNATIONAL
Wassenaar Arrangement (December 1998 changes)

ASIA & PACIFIC
China (no use restrictions)
Indonesia (use restrictions?)
Kyrgyzstan (no export controls)
Vietnam (import controls)

EUROPE
EU (to implement Wassenaar changes?)
Poland (free GSN import)
Slovenia (no domestic controls)
Spain (Telecoms Law may forebode key recovery)

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Chile (no controls)
Colombia (no controls)
Costa Rica (no domestic controls)
Mexico (no use restrictions)
Puerto Rico (no controls)
United States (new export relaxations; Junger dismissed; TACDFIPSFKMI
charter extended; copyright act may hinder crypto research)
Uruguay (no controls)

Please note that the UK entry still needs updating.

Bert-Jaap Koops
Tilburg University
23 December 1998

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good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by
its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who
deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
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