[FreeDNS] cryptography

[Matthew Ogden <freedns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What on earth? ~ every cryptography product has to be licenced by the
governement, another, great money spinner.

-hence does this mean every program which involves encryption or just full
blow cryptography programs.... since most programs involving passwords use
some sort of encryption whether it is DES or 3DES or a similar encryption tech.
This personally hacks me off since I have several programs using encyption.



On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:09:12 +0200 
Anna Swanepoel <annas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The way I see it (and these are definitely my own views only)is that the
> whole bill is about the government wishing to 1) control and 2)milk the
> internet industry for all it's worth financially...
> 
> Costs:
> 
> ~ Can you imagine the costs to internet users to secure their domain
> names?(the draft bill specifically stipulates that pricing policy is up to
> the Minister)
> ~ Can you imagine the costs to administer this? (and believe me, we will be
> footing the bill)
> ~ They did not wish to take part in Mike Lawrie's Namespace thing, but
> prefer to start from scratch (who cares about the costs, internet users are
> rich...)
> ~ To quote Mike Lawrie: "What I was doing on a voluntary
> and unpaid basis was now proposed to be done by a staff of 14 full-time and
> 3 part-time persons, with a budget of R24,525,000 over three years. This
> included an annual salary bill of R4.2million at 1999 rates. [See document
> published by the DoC Office of Director-General titled "Establishment of
> Domain Name Authority, Updated Final Version, October 1999"]"
> ~ very cryptography product has to be licenced by the governement, another
> great money spinner (nevermind the practicality of this "Cryptography
> experts have pointed out that many pieces of popular software, such as the
> Windows operating systems and most Linux distributions, are packaged with or
> contain embedded cryptography software." - from IT Web) 
> 
> etc...
> 
>  
> Control: 
> 
> ~ "Another provision that has drawn fire is a requirement that any
> cryptography product used in SA be registered with the Department of
> Communications, so that the vendor can assist law enforcement officials in
> cracking encryption when needed." from IT Web (I think that just says it
> all)
> ~ The minister will still be selecting the panel, who in turn will be
> selecting the members of the board...and I don't agree that it "coulda been
> worse" ...it boils down to excatly the same thing as the initial draft - the
> Minister will have the final say..
> ~ has anybody read section44 and 45 of chapterVII of the draft bill? They
> basically tell suppliers how and when to deliver services/goods and order
> them to supply refunds within 30 days (without any penalty apart from the
> direct cost of returning the goods) if a consumer cancells the order (no
> reason necessary), etc. While I agree that consumers need to be protected,
> chapter VII dictates billing policies, etc and some of them will result in
> huge financial losses to suppliers....
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> Anna Swanepoel
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Ogden [mailto:matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:47 AM
> To: freedns@xxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [FreeDNS] fw: Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za
> 
> 
> I suppose so, but hell, whats this about other language second level
> domains?
> The entire world uses their domains in english, unless it is another world
> dominating language, adding another 10 second level domains for every
> current
> domain would cause serious confusion and only require that organizations
> spend more to secure their namespace. 
> 
> 
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