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Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World

Posted by timothy on from the and-you'll-like-it dept.

zeke writes: "An article on SecurityFocus details how forced key escrow and other crypto restrictions have taken root around the world, in countries like France, South Africa, the Netherlands and the UK. Ironically, this leaves the United States -- the birthplace and graveyard of the Clipper Chip -- as one of the few bastions of unregulated encryption."

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  1. Re:And Canada by dark_panda · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some links to info on Canadian crypto laws:

    Electronic Frontier Canada's Crypto Page

    A Notice to Exporters, part of the Canadian Export and Import Permits Act: "Export Controls on Cryptographic Goods"

    A speech by John Manley from 1998, then the Minister of Industry: Canada's Cryptography Policy

    The Canadian government's cryptography website: Cryptography/Cryptographie

    I have somewhat of a stake in Canada's crypto laws, as I've been writting and maintaining a strong cryptography extension for PHP which uses the Crypto++ library. Of course, my code itself contains absolutely no cryptographic code, it just links to the aforementioned library, but still...

    J