On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
By the way, I really think Netscape should simply ship Jeff and other people to the Amsterdam office or wherever else seems reasonable and do all the crypto work from there. It will save trouble and hassle. U.S. citizens wanting full 128 bit over the net would then get it from Netscape's overseas download sites. No one anywhere in the world would be forced to use crap.
<flog,flog,neigh,neigh> Sorry, to beat a dead horse, but isn't this like that thread re:Vince Cate's invitation for us to all move to Anguila? We'd still be exporting our thoughts in violation of the ITAR. As long as you're American (person or corporation) you'd still be commiting a crime by putting strong crypto on the net, regardless of where you are, right? (That's what I remember from Micheal Froomkin's arguments from the last time this revolving thread came around). Of course, if some OTHER company (wink,wink,nudge,nudge) that is not incoporated in the US were employ to export a secure version of Netscape from Amsterdam, that would be another story (and how would anyone know that the code, just so happenned to have been written Jeff, et al.?) Just as long as the portion of Netscape that nominally produces Netscape (the software) and distributes it does not call itself Netscape and is not a US corporate citizen, that is the end of the game, right? Anyone got any spare holding companies handy? </flog,flog. No neighs.>