> >Some background: > >"Dutch government: All your bits are belong to us!" >http://www.politechbot.com/p-02073.html > >"Dutch intelligence will scan satellite communications, break crypto" >http://www.politechbot.com/p-01078.html > >The "action plan to combat terrorism": >http://www.minjust.nl/c_actual/persber/actieplan.pdf > >********* > >http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html > > Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography > Jelle van Buuren 09.10.2001 > > Action plan to combat terrorism targets modern communication > technologies > > The Dutch Government announced Friday it wants to regulate the public > use of strong cryptography. The regulation of cryptography is one of > the measures the government is proposing in its [External Link] > action plan to combat terrorism. > > Dutch Government is launching a range of proposals connected with > modern communication technologies. 'The new terrorism makes intensive > use of modern technology,' the government claims. 'Police and > Intelligence has to give more attention on the use of modern > technologies to prevent and fight terrorism.' One of the measures aims > at the 'regulation of strong cryptography for public use.' How the > government is seeking this 'regulation' is not clear. 'This will > become clear in the coming month,' a spokesman told. 'We have to find > some way to give intelligence services access to encrypted > communication.' > > In the early nineties, Dutch government tried to restrict the use of > cryptography. A preliminary draft of a bill aiming to ban the use of > encryption was introduced in March 1994. Anyone who could show that > they had a legitimate reason to use cryptography was allowed to apply > for a license. Concealed within the text was a clause making it > compulsory to hand over the key to the authorities. > > [....] > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list >You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. >Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ >To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html >This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
