Re: Crypto export
Bill Leach wrote:
>> As I see it, it is against US regulations to export security
>> stuff from the USA. Once it is out, we can do what we like with it.
>> So it has to go into non-us, but it doesn't matter how it got out of
>> the USA. We won't encourage anyone to break US regulations; but
>> you've already done that...
>
>First, he did not 'break' US-Regulations when he download the file from
>a non-US site.
My impression was that replay was a US site. If it isn't then there
is no problem at all, at all!
>
>The second issue is that this 'crypto export law' is so crazy that he
>might actually be right in that it might not be illegal for the US
>developer to 'mail' as opposed to 'email' the information to him (I
>don't however think that is the case for source code but rather only for
>encrypted data -- and NO encrypting the source would not then make
>export by mail legal).
I know that PGP5 was exported in printed form. Someone else suggested
that this was only OK if it was a book; but that sounds too crazy
even for an American lawyer.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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