Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group: Open Source is a hot topic in Denmark

[ Thanks to Hans Schou
for this link. ]

“Monday January 17th the Danish Ministry of Research held a
hearing about which strong encryption tools and/or protocols the
Danish government should use for communication with the
citizens.“

“The minister of research, Birte Weiss, opened the hearing. She
mentioned Echelon as one of the reasons for arranging this hearing.
“The Danish government can not do anything to protect the Danish
citizens from foreign intelligence agencies, and each individual is
encouraged to use encryption software” Birte Weiss said.”

“The hearing ranged from secure e-commerce solutions to
encryption of e-mail. Several software products were presented by
Hewlett Packard, Utimaco, Network Associates, iD2 Technologies, IBM
Denmark, Cryptomatic, Microsoft Research, Baltimore Technologies.
The Free Software Community was represented by Werner Koch, author
and project leader on the GnuPG (GNU privacy guard)
project….”

“While some of the companies simply did a commercial
presentation, it is worth noticing that Stefek Zaba from Hewlett
Packard (HP) also presented FreeSWAN, GnuPG and OpenSSL as valuable
products they offer to their customers. HP offers a lot of security
solutions to their customers and use Open Source software whenever
they believe this is the best solution for the customer.”

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