-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- anand abhyankar <anand@querisoft.com> writes:
i am a bit confused. what exactly are the us govt crypto regulations.
Hard to tell, really...
what i mean is that :
Oh, this is one of those easy questions!
1) is it illegal to develop an encryption tool (s/w) in the US which uses > 40 bit size session keys and then export that s/w outside of the US.
Yes.
2) is it illegal to encrypt some data inside the us with a key > 40 bit in size and then send that data outside the US.
No. HTH, Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMwPcx8kz/YzIV3P5AQHqgwMAgCzNC8JCGJ4hY98Xk5UB4UtSRtx4VBfv bCD1AeE/1qLLJThi187hCEQRxzm4gAC+jCG6B+WSghvplrnkkfdMRn+3d8/+3F/y X/o7Khg9WqZcfm2uzOt9RSkaLXvl6Pk4 =WVv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----