Instead of worrying about US law, you should now worry about
French/Chinese/Russian law instead...
---SUMMARY OF CANADA'S CRYPTOGRAPHY POLICY
BACKGROUNDER
The Government is implementing a cryptography policy that:
encourages the growth of electronic commerce; allows Canadian producers to export their products globally within the framework of international arrangements; and contains measures to maintain the capability of law enforcement agencies to ensure public safety. Support for Electronic Commerce
Canadians are free to develop, import and use whatever cryptography products they wish.
The Government will not implement mandatory key recovery requirements or licensing regimes.
The Government encourages industry to establish responsible practices, such as key recovery techniques for stored data.
The Government will act as a model user of cryptography through the practices of the Government of Canada Public Key Infrastructure (GOC PKI).
The Government encourages and supports industry-led accreditation of private sector certification authorities.
Export / International Agreements
Canada will continue to implement cryptography export controls in keeping with the framework of the international Wassenaar Arrangement.
Canada will take into consideration the export practices of other countries and the availability of comparable products when rendering export permit decisions.
The export permit application process will be made more transparent and procedures will be streamlined to ensure the least regulatory intervention necessary.
Public Safety
The Government proposes amendments to the Criminal Code and other statutes as necessary to:
criminalize the wrongful disclosure of keys; deter the use of encryption in the commission of a crime; deter the use of cryptography to conceal evidence; apply existing interception, search and seizure and assistance procedures to cryptographic situations and circumstances.
---Cheers,
-- Herman Oosthuysen Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com Suite 300, #3016, 5th Ave NE, Calgary, Alberta, T2A 6K4, Canada Phone: (403) 569-5687, Fax: (403) 235-3965 ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>; <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>; <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>; <imipak@yahoo.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Linux crypto?
> > > They won't let me (or any other US citizen) make any edits to any of > > > the ipsec sources if it were to be added to the main tree. That's > > > unacceptable because it means that effectively I cannot maintain the > > > networking. > > > > well the _big_ thing the freeswan people are afraid of, is exactly the > > crypto laws in the us. > > They refuse to have a US citizen working on it. Which is reasonable given > the historu of US law, but until the US finishes outlawing computers in > a couple of years that is a problem. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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