-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- <fearing the wrath of the cpunks, but deciding that it's better to get this `sorted out' than keep on being wrong> Please take all of the following as being mystatements of what I think, not statements of absolute truth. [That is, call the CEC yourself.] It is legal for a Canadian citizen to import PGP into Canada under Canadian law. It is legal to use either the international or yanqui versions in Canada--software patents don't apply [I don't think]. It is legal for an American to give pgp to an American citizen, a permanent legal resident alien of the United States, or to a Canadian citizen, providing the receiver is in Canada or the United States. It is *illegal* for a Canadian to export pgp anywhere except the U.S., if the pgp came from the U.S. and no substantial changes have been made to it. For more docs, see http://www.io.org/~samwise/crypto/ [yes, I know, it hasn't changed in a while, and there's some stuff missing [such as the Area Control List], but the most important thing on that web page is the information about who to ask: there's an office in Halifax] My recommendation: get the international version of PGP. [Unless, of course, the above statements are wrong, in which case my reasoning in favour of the international version are faulty.] richard - -- Richard Martin I DON'T SPEAK FOR ALIAS|WAVEFRONT Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team] rmartin@aw.sgi.com/g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu http://www.io.org/~samwise Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMLOLkh1gtCYLvIJ1AQHkfAQAkz8HnhxC0S59PHCajFQYGjp1dCVNzbf2 JZnv4epN/KSr6K1f/v2fLF9PoCylADHulHze/oeN1T3gEel6MfNQheZTFofu3381 y9O39q4lmRyS6YrL07T9A3hr3taCrx3W9L7HZancKmKQk1EyNHgG+0ECiDR20Lp9 H0AyGkGSmng= =hN9v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----