RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Oleg wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Here is the relevant text: ... Which means that if you bought F-Secure SSH in Israel then you can use SSH as long as you like. What this basically means is that if a specific

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Aviram Jenik wrote: But no, there are no exceptions to the law (such as small key size, domestic use only, etc). Theoretically you must get a license for your ROT13 feature in Mozilla. Practically they will not come after you unless you are a big fish. Ok, I'll bite. Anyone ever heard of

RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi, Aviram Jenik wrote: Practically they will not come after you unless you are a big fish. Ok, I'll bite. Anyone ever heard of a big fish they came after? Depending on what you call come after. Our story is similar to the Eli Biham story you wrote about. They approached us

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Aviram Jenik wrote: I totally disagree. The law is bad - it is badly phrased and makes no practical sense. By some sheer luck, it is implemented correctly and logically by the people who are currently responsible. But that's a mutation - a freak of nature. Don't count on it to survive the

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The law is bad - it is badly phrased and makes no practical sense. By some sheer luck, it is implemented correctly and logically by the people who are currently responsible. NB: correctly != to spec. In the end, someone will pay for it. -- Oleg

RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:11, Aviram Jenik wrote: I totally disagree. The law is bad - it is badly phrased and makes no practical sense. By some sheer luck, it is implemented correctly and logically by the people who are currently responsible. But that's a mutation - a freak of nature. Don't

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002, Aviram Jenik wrote about RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: I totally disagree. The law is bad - it is badly phrased and makes no practical sense. By some sheer luck, it is implemented correctly and logically by the people who are currently

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is availble

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002, Uri Bruck wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: In the US, supporters of the second amendment, like the NRA (National Rifle Association) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond ;) see http://tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/) have the saying If guns were

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: by civilians, or carrying automatic weapons) or what do militias have anything to do with it (supposedly this part is a relic from the time when having a federal army was considered a Bad Thing). AFAIK, the original motivation for the Amendment was that

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Absolutely. As I mentioned, in most places carrying (concealed) weapons is forbidden. Basically, you can only keep a gun at home. Interestingly, carrying weapons openly

[OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Actually it is not about proposed laws. It is about an initiative to create such proposals. But the subject of my message was long enough: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=206232 (Free registration, is required. Unless you disable javascript, that is) One note:

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to which limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of sophisticated security systems

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One note: people there seem to be quite clueless regarding the distribution of encryption technologies: The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to which limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Note that there's a difference between allowing export or importing some encryption technology, and allowing actually using it. If you

RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Dvir Volk
One note: people there seem to be quite clueless regarding the distribution of encryption technologies: The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to which limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of sophisticated security systems will

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Orr Dunkelman
, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to which limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of sophisticated security systems will help the defense

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is availble it can be used, whether it is legal

RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: One note: people there seem to be quite clueless regarding the distribution of encryption technologies: The legitlators accept the position of the Security Forces according to which limiting the use of encryption and limiting the distribution of

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 9 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am afraid this line of reasoning is difficult to explain to legislators, or indeed to any audience sufficiently remote from this list's core population. That is why what you call cheap use of the terror threat

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the US, supporters of the second amendment, like the NRA (National Rifle Association) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond ;) see http://tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/) have the saying If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns!. I didn't weant to raise the gun

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/index.html Orr Dunkelman wrote: A) It is Tzav Hatzofen (it is a Tzav which Minsiter of Diffence (Sar Habitachun) is authorized to change. B) It was changed several yearsr ago, and you can use encryption as much as you like (I think up to 128-bit secret

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Oleg
Wrong. That SEEMS to be the case for free means (http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzav.htm#x0111), but the list (http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzofend.htm) doesn't seem to include SSH. I will reserve what I said in that I have not read the entire list (they have a seperate PDF

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Oleg wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: 2. You may USE any product you want, even if it's not on the list if you only using it, not development or selling, etc. Where did you read that?? According to the turtle (http

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Eran Tromer
Shachar Shemesh wrote: (http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzofend.htm) doesn't seem to Of all the products that I recognize on this list (i.e., most of them), not even one includes reasonably secure encryption. The only exceptions I could spot are the encryption stuff built into

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Oleg
Where did you read that?? According to the turtle (http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzav.htm), You need a license except for uses where a license is exempt; License is exempt for buying, using, selling, etc., of a free means, where here free has nothing to do with free-software, but

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Oleg wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Here is the relevant text: ... Which means that if you bought F-Secure SSH in Israel then you can use SSH as long as you like. What this basically means is that if a specific software

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 16:13, Eran Tromer wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: (http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzofend.htm) doesn't seem to Of all the products that I recognize on this list (i.e., most of them), not even one includes reasonably secure encryption. The only exceptions