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Security Portal: Will Encryption Export Controls Survive?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 1999

“In the wake of the Bernstein vs DOJ ruling, many privacy
advocates and strong encryption proponents are calling it the
beginning of the end of government encryption controls. If this is
true, it will certainly be ironic in light of the US government’s
success in convincing 32 other nations to agree to stricter crypto
export controls in last December’s version of the Wassenaar
Arrangement. In the aforementioned case, the winning argument was
that Professor Bernstein’s First Amendment rights to free speech
were violated when he could not post his strong crypto algorithms
on his web site…”

“The winning argument that needs to be made to government is
simple: the widespread availability of strong encryption will
prevent more crime than it will conceal. If the Internet can be
described as today’s gold rush, then electronic fraud is
tomorrow’s.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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