From itnews.com.au
But permanent replacement under consideration.
The Department of Defence quietly stopped renewals of unrestricted communication exemptions for cyber security and cryptography researchers subject to export control laws at the end of 2018, a move that came without warning to the research community.
iTnews reported the apparent change to policy around permits allowing researchers to communicate about cryptography with any non-sanctioned country earlier this week.
The general permission was introduced on a trial basis in 2017 to bypass the Defence Trade Controls (DTC) Act 2012, which regulates the supply of military and so-called ‘dual-use’ technologies overseas.