[Cryptography] Australia commits encryption suicide

[Henry Baker]

Perhaps it's time to downgrade *all* HTTPS connections to Australia
to 512 (RSA) bits, *especially all banking, credit card & financial
connections*.

See Alfie's 2nd link below for more details.

I'm afraid it's going to take several *billion-dollar losses* from
Russian/Chinese/NKorean criminals before these politicians wake up.

It's also time to start developing a new crypto institute in a neutral
non-paranoid country.  Yes, such countries are becoming rarer, but not
yet extinct.

At 12:48 PM 1/10/2016, Alfie John wrote:
>Last year, the Australian Government added cryptography to the Defence
>and Strategic Goods List:
>
>http://www.defence.gov.au/deco/DSGL.asp
>
>An Australian found to be in supply of a controlled good to a person in
>another country could have the book thrown at them (10 years prison).  I
>talked to DECO, and they confirmed to me that this _does_ include
>discussing cryptography by email or within a closed mailing list :/
>
>The officer assured me that if the mailing list were to be open to the
>public without a login wall, then it would be seen as "publishing" into
>the public domain (no jail time), rather than "supply" (jail time).
>
>Could the admins consider making the mailing list archives publicly
>available?
>
>For more info, take a look at:
>
>http://theconversation.com/paranoid-defence-controls-could-criminalise-teaching-encryption-41238
>
>IANAL
>
>Alfie
>
>-- 
>Alfie John
>alfie at fastmail.com