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Re: World-wide GAK

1997-10-23 02:50:55
For those who thought GAK was merely a local political issue,
isolated to those barbarians in the USA, one that they could
afford to ignore and morally refuse to address -- Quelle surprise!
It's spreading:

FRANCE PROPOSES KEY ENCRYPTION LAW

The French government has proposed a law that would mandate a
key-recovery system for all encrypted electronic documents, a
move that is opposed by the business community and the European
Commission.  Earlier this month, the European Commission rejected
the key-recovery approach to encryption, which some believe would
make it easier for competitors to gain access to a company's
business secrets.  "I do not say this is the best system,"
says the chief of France's Central Service for the Security of
Information Systems.  "It is the least bad in trying to find a
balance between national-security interests, economic interests
and the protection of personal privacy."

(Wall Street Journal 20 Oct 97)

In Italy, AIPA (Authority for Informatics in Public Administration), has
sent to Government a project of law which excludes "key escrow" and also
the hierarchy of Certification Authorities. However, AIPA didn't define
requirements of private body that can issue a certificate. So the
Governament has sent to Chambers a draft bill which establish that the
private body that can issue a certificate MUST be a S.p.A. whose registered
capital is the same necessary to licence to merchant banking: 7,5 million
dollars.
In such way, italian Internet providers (subjects technically and
structurally most qualified!) won't be able to issue certificates without
any reason.

Salvatore Nesta
s(_dot_)nesta(_at_)guest(_dot_)cnuce(_dot_)cnr(_dot_)it



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