On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 12:55 PM, lks wrote:
But cryto is not only the domain of US/UK, if i am not wrong, the new ANSIANSI is an american standard, European do not use ANSI rather CE is generally used. UK/US has always push for key escrow. How this will affect other country is uncertain at best. US can't impose restriction directly but they can always pressure others to comply with a comprehensive key escrow regime. Although the current implementation of various algorithm can be obtained form sites outside the US. the trend is disturbing, one example is the arrest of Dimitri Skyrolv. It obviously has an extra territorial implication.
standard came from a scandinavian country. The algoritm is published as well
as other algorithm, whats to stop from implementing. Of course the danger is
backdoors or weaknesses may be classified ..
This is exactly what I meant, there are quite a few free implementation of various crypto. Problem is how do we defend their availability. If some govt. starts to hunt down crypto site and try to enforce key escrow requirement, where are you going to make it more widely available ?
That's why it is imperative to keep our own technology and not let
government/monopolist agenda lead the way .. but where do we even begin to
start ... it's a long road to catch up .. even with simple Gnu/Linux
adoption .. we do not have a pool of developers here, even the techies are
dominated by sysadmin type.
Perhaps we can start a series of articles for the newspapers to educate/inform the masses who have not heard the good news yet ..???From the language of it all, I suspect there will also be some "discouraging" on open standard strong cryptography. This has always been a torn on the part of the US and UK govt. Read the part on "ICT and stability" I suppose they will argue availability of GPG will let Al Qeada to use them. Blah blah blah. Before long, DMCA creep up and impose on others. Someday, your multi-region DVD player at home will become illegal. On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 10:43 AM, nsh@pop.jaring.my wrote:On 18 Jan 2003 at 22:08, lks wrote:Quote: "A draft of the declaration had called for open source to be
"supported" but was changed after objections from the U.S. government
delegation late Tuesday night."
So now what? US gonna bomb those who are not with them?
I suppose it is inevitable that USA govt will try to discourage OSS adoption as much as possible since most of the popular software in use currently are very much USA-centric and their software industry will suffer given the prevalent current business model of making money by selling generic software. If OSS really catches on here esepcially in govt usage, I am sure they will also try to put some pressure on the Malaysian govt. (if they have not done so already). ------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message
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