Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-11 Thread Max . Hyre
Dear Debian-legal: Please pardon my tardiness in replying to this subject (I just read my DWN), but since I've seen no mention of this particular aspect of it, here goes: In a couple of e-mails in the thread[1], "Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sounds like South Africa is about to

Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-03 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:30:34AM -0600, Joe Moore wrote: > Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (quoting the relevant law) > > There is a definitions section, in which we find: > > > > - > > "cryptography product" means any product that makes use of > > cryptographic techniques and is u

Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 09:30, Joe Moore wrote: > Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (quoting the relevant law) > > There is a definitions section, in which we find: > > > > - > > "cryptography product" means any product that makes use of > > cryptographic techniques and is used by a send

Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-03 Thread Joe Moore
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (quoting the relevant law) > There is a definitions section, in which we find: > > - > "cryptography product" means any product that makes use of > cryptographic techniques and is used by a sender or recipient of data > messages for the purposes of ensur

Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-03 Thread Matt Black
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:20, Lukas Geyer wrote: > The South African government passed a law (apparently two > month ago) which requires all crypto providers to register with the > government for some fee. The law can be found under > http://co.za/ect/a25-02.pdf (this is ridiculously large, seems to

Re: South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:20, Lukas Geyer wrote: > The South African government passed a law (apparently two > month ago) which requires all crypto providers to register with the > government for some fee. The law can be found under > http://co.za/ect/a25-02.pdf (this is ridiculously large, seems to

South African Law on Crypto Providers

2002-10-01 Thread Lukas Geyer
This was on slashdot today, so probably several people have seen it already. The South African government passed a law (apparently two month ago) which requires all crypto providers to register with the government for some fee. The law can be found under http://co.za/ect/a25-02.pdf (this is ridicul