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Re: [perpass] India withdraws encryption policy - Re: India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 22 September 2015 12:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] India withdraws encryption policy - Re: India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates
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Brian Trammell <ietf@trammell.ch> wrote:
    > But in general, playing whack-a-mole takes a lot of energy especially
    > when the policies themselves are largely copypasta. Perhaps we should
    > put together an IAB/program form letter ("So You've Decided to Ban
    > Crypto, Here's Why That Won't Work") that we can quickly tailor to the
    > details in order to be able to make constructive public comments
    > *before* the withdrawal happens next time? :)

Sure, seems like a good idea.
One of those fill in the multiple-choice letters, like you get from
the school nurse :-)

I say this in jest, yet, I'm actually quite serious.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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