Re: Crypto export

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

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
Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

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