Re: Australian Crypto Regulations

You need export permission if the govt regard it as strong crypto, but its
free and easy enough to obtain. About eight years ago I wrote a crypto
program that utilised "strong" (which was then defined as 56 or 64bit+)
encryption. No homegrown ciphers though, just an array of existing ones.

Anyway I contacted the govt, cant remember which agency now though sorry,
and they flew two guys here to Perth over from the eastern states - one from
the DSD, the other from ASIO. They came in, both very young guys in their
late 20s, I made them a cup of tea and we had a brief discussion about the
program, and that was literally all there was to it - export permission
obtained. Kinda made me wonder why they even bothered flying over, but I do
make nice tea. Things may've changed in the last 8 years though, but I'm
pretty sure you still need export permission unless the strength is <56bit.

http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/cryptfaq.html
http://austlii.edu.au/itlaw/articles/Gunning_Encryption.html


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