1 July 1998

Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:03:15 +0200
From: q/depesche <depesche@quintessenz.at>
To: quintessenz-list@quintessenz.at
Subject: CAMPAIGN: Krypto/Software und Wassenaar Arrangement 

q/depesche 98.7.1/2

CAMPAIGN: Krypto/Software und Wasseanaar Arrangement 

Thema:
Das Wassenaar Arrangement führt auf seiner Liste zur Exportbeschränkung 
für dual use goods auch Kryptographie Software an.

Damit fallen Programme, die zum Schutz der Privatsphäre & des Bürgerrechts
auf vertraulichen Briefverkehr in modernen Zeiten unerlässlich sind, unter
die Regelung durch einen internationalen Vertrag, der seinem Sinn nach zur
Verhinderung des Exports von Teilen für Massen/vernichtungs/waffen
entstanden ist.

Kategorischer Nexus/imperativ:
Dieser Umstand ist ein zu ändernder, zumindest ist dies zu probieren.

Action:
Die Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) diskutiert darüber. 

   http://www.gilc.org

Full text:
Wassenaar Arrangement on request. Later 2day available on ftp.

See below:
Ein roundup vom Stand der Informationen rund um Wassenaar:   

Quelle gilc-plan@gilc.org, posted 13.18 (GMT plus 2.00)

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Dear GILCers,

Talked 2 Mr Anonymous of Vienna Wassenaar Office 2day. Says: He is 
Canadian & was crypto expert 2 Canadian Government in the last five years.
Anybody know him? He and another Wassenaar Office guy I talked 2 are 
pretty diplomatical & top/neutral - closed oysters.

What other sources say: Top Theme in the expert sessions is nuclear 
non/proliferation, India & Pakistan are overshadowing all. Not only in 
Wassenaar groups but also in OECD expert meetings the Crypto theme is 
always simmering & ready to cook up again if there is a cause. Then 
internal discussions start again whether cryptography software products 
should be removed from the non/proliferation lists. There are always 
voices inside being pro 2 a liberal solution. 

As to Marc Rotenbergs (EPIC) argument (see quote below) sceptical 2 the 
possibilty of getting Cryptography Software off the non-proliferation list
- agree 2 some extent. I am not sure if that should be the only goal we 
strive for. If we ride a campaign we obviously must talk 2 those 
officials 2 get informed. If we talk 2 them we confront them with our 
arguments. This could inspire some voices inside the said gremia (c above)

Michael Baker (EFA) has already pointed out a basic strategy.  

Wassenaar/Crypto is a case destined 4 GILC/action. If we can "gilc" them 
we can only win. 

update 2 come

cu

Erich

Looking up Wassenaar.org

If you contact http://www.wassenaar.org please be careful. Very long 
loading frontpage featuring 33 proudly waving animated national flags. 
Macs running O.S. 7.6.higher plus Netscape have been shot.

Wassenaar.org webmaster was not amused when I told him ;-)

Reading the present Wassenaar Arrangement:

For anyone who has some technical knowledge in one of the quoted fields 
of HF-Technology namely broadcast, Satellite uplinking, or GSM 
commmunications W/Arrangement is fun to read. The other way round it says
pretty exactly what kind of frequencies & hardware communications military
warfare professionals use. I am sure everbody who wants 2 already has the 
document. It is http://www.jya.com

For quick European ftp downloads I will put it on a ftp later this day.

Marc Rotenberg wrote: There is, of course, the practical question of 
whether there is any real prospect of dropping crypto controls from 
Wassenaar. Most of the recent concern has focused on preserving the mass 
market exception. We also have to consider that many of the participants 
in the Wassenaar process are from the intelligence community and not 
generally subject to traditional forms of political accountability.

Michael Baker wrote before: To run a successful Wassenaar crypto lobbying 
campaign we need a strategy and people on the ground.  More on people on 
the ground below.  As for strategy, the object should be to have crypto 
removed from the list of dual-use technologies.  To achieve this we should
organise a lobby of politicians and bureaucrats in each of the Wassenaar 
Arrangement participating countries.  It would help if we had a campaign 
co-ordinator in each country.  More on organisations which might provide 
a co-ordinator & support below.  

We should also have briefing materials, which idealy should be translated 
in to the languages of each of the countries.  Some of the briefing 
materials would be for each contry's campaign co-ordinator and campaign 
staff.  Such material would suggest how to run the campaign, who to lobby,
how to identify them, and what to say to them.  The remainder of the 
briefing materials would be to present to the politicians and bureaucrats 
explaining why crypto should be removed from the dual-use list.

If/when we get organised in each country we could also organise a global 
action alert, asking people to contact their politicians and identified 
bureaucrats to remove crypto from the dual-use list.

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