Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:54:16 -0500 | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions? |
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Lauri Tischler wrote: > > David Feuer wrote: > > > > > Since the hooks are obviously to add compression and redundancy > > coding there shouldn't be any problem..... OTOH, I wish Linus > > still lived in Finland. > > > Doesn't help, sorry to say.. > The shithead local government signed Wassenaar agreement, actually against > their own original agreement (about year ago) to keep crypto free in > Finland.. > Cheers....
still... Finland doesn't have the same traditionally anti-crypto stance as the U.S. AFAIK.... U.S. gov seems to be much more paranoid about crypto than others.... The only hope is that with so much high-quality free crypto floating about, the government will eventually realize that it really can't do anything about it and give up.
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