-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:12 AM 9/3/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Yeah, you're missing that Ian's a Canadian, not subject to US laws when he's not in US territory, unlike Rivest (but not unlike Shamir.)
I don't know Ian's status but those who are US permanent residents are subject to most of these sorts of laws even if they are temporarily outside of the US. Student Visa holders are not permanent residents of course.
Taking working papers with him might be an export problem, but taking ideas in his head isn't, and when he's at home, he can work, subject to Canadian limits on writing, publishing, and internetting crypto. If he wants to sell products based on his crypto work, there may be student visa issues involved, but there's a Canadian corporation that can take care of some of those problems for him.
He's probably OK there. If I am in France, or China, or Canada, I can continue to write the great American Novel or the Great American Algorithm that I'm working on without violating work permit requirements. The nice thing about those of us who only sell ideas for a living is that they haven't figured out a way to outlaw thinking yet (as much as they've tried). In any case, I take it that Ian is a graduate student which implies that he possesses a bachelor's degree from somewhere and thus can work here more or less at will for five years. Under the US-Canada FTA and NAFTA, citizens of the three signatory countries who have bachelor's degrees and genuine job offers can work in either of the other two countries without going through the whole work permit process. It's just a little paper shuffling at the border and "cannot ordinarily be denied". So Ian can work here but poor Bill Gates can't work in Canada. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNA1914VO4r4sgSPhAQGmdQP5AdIfzFV0RTNCPUc/G36b8LaZuwTI6tG0 97E5SEgyt0TYLtgLmBLA57s8eiIpbPbKcD4qXUTbjLgee1d7HgIGd+SOrpgAh7rH 87HpRVduFfCet+J9OfBS7apPvmvwTU/OTMRHWX3UyLspDpFakJ9mFNmpZX1jhU+G 0/5FdOYa/5g= =Ha4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----