International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 06 July 2015

Announcement Announcement

Dear IACR members,

The Australian government has recently enacted its Defence Trade Controls Act (DTCA) which places export controls on cryptographic technologies. As it contains no exemption for ordinary research & teaching, the act apparently criminalizes the scholarly activities of our Australian colleagues.

The IACR has drafted a petition in response to this legislation (https://www.iacr.org/petitions/australia-dtca/). If you are an IACR member, we encourage you to add your signature. With enough support, we hope to contribute to an improvement to the situation in Australia.

As this is the first petition hosted by the IACR, we welcome your feedback. Please send comments to petitions@iacr.org.

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