[LINK] Teaching Encryption Soon to be ILLEGAL w/o a PERMIT

[David Boxall]

On 27/05/2015 1:32 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> Tempered somewhat by exemptions: (http://www.defence.gov.au/DECO/DSGL.asp)
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> ...
 From the comments to the Conversation article:
> ... in the US it's ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). The famous US "crypto wars" of the 90s were largely over ITAR's treatment of cryptogrpahy.
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> ITAR has also had quite a strong effect on cryptography research in the US - conferences and research are divided into "ITAR" and "non-ITAR" streams, and technology is sometimes advertised as being "ITAR-free", for instance. ITAR has its problems and is still a matter of controversy.
>
> But the Australian laws are significantly worse. The US ITAR regulations have broader exceptions. They explicitly exclude all basic and applied research in science and engineering. And my understanding is they don't have such a broad criminalisation of intangible supplies of dual use technology.

PPAU has decided that, while it's not good, they have bigger fish to fry:
<https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/defence-trade-controls-amendment-bill-2015/488/2>

A good summary of the Act and amendments, as proposed:
<http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/01/dtca-public-consultation.html>

It looks like, as usual, we've followed the US only worse.

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