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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Dutch government moves to limit encryption, citing t
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: Dutch government moves to limit encryption, citing t
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- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:27:33 +0200
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Dutch government moves to limit encryption, citing terrorists
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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
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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.
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