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German Gov't, Free Software, and Secure E-mail

Posted by Hemos on from the germans-take-the-lead dept.

friday2k writes "There is a nice Article on Newsforge describing how the German Government moves ahead on looking into Free Software solutions for government agencies. And you need a standard, secure, email client for this." Basically, they are funding some good secure e-mail - but making sure that it works with stuff like Kmail.

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  1. Re:Who woudl've thunk it.. by Jason+Earl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All the more reason for Germany to be interested in encryption. The U.S. might be shoving the genie back in the bottle for normal citizens, but you can bet that the government itself will continue to use encryption.

    Likewise the Germans know that they can't run their government without encryption, but they realize that they can't expect the U.S. based software industry to supply it, and they can't really trust the U.S. based software industry not to create backdoors in the software they do supply. So the Germans are doing the only sane thing. They are writing their own crypto programs.

    This is why the U.S. will fail to crack down on encryption. The genie is loose, and there are too many people that want it to stay loose.