Wassenaar Revises Crypto

[Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>]

To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>

On December 3 the Wassenaar members approved
changes to the cryptography provisions of the WA:

   http://cryptome.org/wass120399.htm

And enhanced enforcement:

   http://207.96.11.93/press/99/WassEnforce.html

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Bureau of Export Administration
U. S. Department of Commerce
                                                    For Immediate Release
                                                         December 3, 1999

[...]							 
   Todays agreement results from work initiated by the Export Enforcement
   arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce and was agreed-to unanimously
   by all 33 member countries.

   The participating states affirmed that the elements of export control
   enforcement include a preventive program; an investigatory process;
   penalties for violations; and international cooperation. They also
   affirmed that enforcement be strong, effective, transparent and
   national law-based.
[...]							 
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