"Perry E. Metzger" writes: : : Thaddeus J. Beier writes: : > So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland : > to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported : > by UUNET. They can't do that, can they? Probably nobody would prosecute, : > but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern : > Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise. : : It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal : in spite of the export regulations. Once again, what the ITAR forbid is the disclosure of cryptographic software to a foreign person within or without the United States, so it does not make any difference whether the message containing the code passes through the United States or not. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu