The biggest thing to remember in amidst all this legal light show crap is that
the longer these countries hold down strong encryption, the longer they hold
back widespread Net commerce... commerce that adds jobs, increases the taxable
income of companies and, in the long term, increases the government's income
from both corporate and personal taxes. All of which comes right around again
to fight terrorists and all the people they're worried about using the strong
encryption.
The bottom line: strong encryption is no different that any other weapon - if
it's illegal, then only criminals will have it (exactly the opposite of what
the law tries to prevent). In this case, keeping it illegal also stunts the
growth of the world economy at the same time. So, when you take away all the
rhetoric and utterly inane arguments, keeping strong encryption bottled is
really a very silly thing to do.
Regards,
dsp
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On Saturday, December 05, 1998 4:23 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall
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> On Fri, Dec 04, 1998, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > What impact will this have on the mod_ssl project if it is indeed accurate?
> >
> > http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/122463.html
>
> A few facts from my point of view:
>
> 1. Although the article said "Germany is among the countries that agreed to
> make their controls more strict at the Wassenaar meeting" AFAIK this is
> still only a press information IMHO. Nothing really happended until now
> AFAIK. And because since a few weeks we've a new government I'm not
> convinced that this will really happen. At least the new government is
> less conservative than the old, so such crypto laws have less chance.
>
> 2. mod_ssl is distributed from _Switzerland_ and not from Germany, because
> www.engelschall.com is located in Zurich, Switzerland at the ETHZ. So
> even
> when our German law should change we can distribute/export mod_ssl from
> there unless I've do my development on this machine, too.
>
> 3. Really good pieces of software never get lost: there is always one
> who takes it over and develops it further for the community. So even when
> I
> personally would no longer be allowed to develop mod_ssl I'm sure we find
> someone who can take it over. At least I currently try hard to make
> mod_ssl
> the cleanest SSL solution for Apache, so I'm convinced that a new
> developer
> can be found when all should go finally bad with the laws.
>
> So, don't panic. I'm sure mod_ssl will survive those law issues...
>
> Greetings,
> Ralf S. Engelschall
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