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Index of Subjects I've seen some mention that this latest abomination excludes "Public Domain Software"; which would probably include CSuite. However, that exclusion would probably be too intelligent a move by politicians, so I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm getting pretty sick of this whole regulated and restricted information. Fsck Canada, I'll move somewhere else without such stupid policies. On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, David L. Potter wrote: > > fyi... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 05:52:24 -0500 (EST) > From: Philip Webb <purslow@chass.utoronto.ca> > To: lynx-dev@sig.net > Subject: lynx-dev international cave-in > > Toronto Star 981205 > > Ottawa to regulate encryption exports -- Robert Cribb > > Canada has joined 33 countries, incl Japan & the UK, in imposing > new export controls on encryption software. At a meeting in Vienna Thursday, > countries belonging to the Wassenaar Arrangement -- originally to limit > arms exports -- agreed to limit exports of the most powerful encryptions, > said André LeBlanc, Dept of Foreign Affairs: for the 1st time, > Canadian companies will have to acquire government permits to export > mass-market software with > 64 bits encryption. > [chop] -- Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca> Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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