What is the policy of other industry organisations?
Almost all major national and international organisations involved in the information industry have publicly supported the relaxation of strict controls over the use and export of encryption products. Among these are: International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC11/ Ad Hoc Group of Cryptographers and Computer Scientists, 1998. http://www.crypto.com/key_study US Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/ Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) http://www.ieee.org American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/joint_crypto_letter_1997.html The Internet Society (ISOC) http://www.isoc.org Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) http://www.aiia.com.au The Australian Computer Society (ACS) http://www.acs.org.au/news/caelli.htm Government and political statements supporting strong crypto: OECD Cryptography Guidelines http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0
