FC: New summary of encryption regulations in Europe

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Simo-Pekka Parviainen of the University of Helsinki 
(http://www.iki.fi/spp/) has written a master of law thesis entitled 
"Cryptographic Software Export Controls in the EU."

It is available here (but be warned, it is 144 pages PDF, in English):
http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/oik/julki/pg/parviainen/

He summarizes it in an email to me:

> My thesis really does only cover European Union. In EU the Union is futher
> harmonizing the export control laws in Member States even when there is
> foreign- and security considerations. This is done because internal market
> in the EU and excercising of uniform common foreing policy requires it.
>
> The EU export control law was defined by ECJ (EC Court of Justice) in
> early nineties, long before 'crypto controvercy' began. When it comes to
> strong encryption software EU merely implements decisions of Wassenaar
> Arrangement.
>
> To put it short, the liberalization trend is about to continue as we have
> seen. Wassenaar liberalized mass market crypto even futher over the 64-bit
> limit, US liberalization, and in your country the bureaucracy tries to
> also streamline the export licencing process I guess.

-Declan




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