-- At 11:54 AM 9/3/2000 -0400, Adam Back wrote:
The US export regulations no longer prevent export of crypto. PGPexported binary copies of PGP from US websites, as now do many other companies. Crypto source is exported also from numerous web sites.
Because the law is still unclear and ambiguous, and the government likes to keep it that way. A plausible interpretation of current legislation, court decisions, regulations, and observed practice by enforcement agencies, is that code with public source code may be freely exported, and code with secret source code may be exported provided the government first gets to know all the weaknesses you are hiding from the public. However the government could decide tomorrow that what we thought the law is, is not actually the law, and we are all going to jail. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG rfi1pubCBFZOwR01VuZcfDdQx9XBa2LJRDuMEIws 4K2OgqaKgCp+9BWcwwXv0EITlnD3DomQOZ5ZY9lVT