For some reason, Bob Hettinga left off cypherpunks when forwarding this to other lists. It's nice to see the public treating government crypto regulations with the respect that they deserve! (yes, I'm referring to the 9 million users who didn't show up, not the few who did :-) >At 9:48 AM -0700 on 2/1/00, NewsScan wrote: > >> COMPANIES IGNORE CHINA'S ENCRYPTION REGULATIONS >> If everyone covered by China's new regulations on encryption registration >> had complied, about nine million Internet users would have shown up in one >> tiny government office to hand-deliver a form specifying what kind of >> encryption they used on their computers. Instead, only a handful of people >> showed up. Chinese officials have said there will be no extension of the >> deadline, but apparently have not yet decided what to do about the companies >> that missed it -- a group that includes virtually every Chinese and foreign >> company doing business in China. (Reuters/New York Times 1 Feb 2000) >> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/01china-encryptio n.html
