-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:
Do you Seriously Believe that Netscape would prefer foreigners to develop and use competing products? Of course not. They are probably secretly applauding the brave exporters.
You are wrong. We are worried that our permission to provide these products will be withdrawn.
As far as I can tell, you need no "permission" to "provide these products", at least domestically. The only restrictions that have been implied have been over the delivery of encryption over the 'net, and even that is questionable.
If even that much. Most of the "permission" i've heard of was infered at best. The NSA, nor anybody else, has the _legal_ power to stop you from putting crypto on the Web, on FTP, or anywere else, so long as you do not _willingly_ give it to foreign citizens. If some non-citizen downloads it, and said they were a US citizen, its not your fault. you THOUGHT you were giving it to a citizen, which is all the law actually requires. Of course, if anybody like Netscape actually had the guts to take this to court, arguing that ITAR doesn't cover Crypto, the ACLU and other such would probably back them, and it'd stand a fair chance. Unfortunatly, everybody in a position to do this has decided they'd rather not risk having presidence (sp?) that this _was_ covered under ITAR, of which there is none. --Deviant -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMfJ4NjAJap8fyDMVAQH1/Qf/RmVcN8GpTUbUbC7MfhF+S06wT4ANE92I CYIlEn6dWCwA5AAc0EN0WjFy6Tww/S6VCsxemuaxJk6wS0rbAY8ot8DDsAGiilV7 bzkNJOx472paf9fEjIaN7SHzjHd1gd/ZZnQIv1v9mUIYESsC860+8LGtt+g6i/um xpFZXp+6VXog7U941JZ+AOOUnYUVqWBhciOy+zf8MU98TcpKpjpg/PJcfsrQLZWm 5+9yI8OAbLiyrrtTRTGc+jjyRU9pQ7yxU/e0+sSXSQl5iETGG79Kx3urCnO1BqoU k3E2RgTOlQ7mOSAPZIAzUxsuIBEMEs7eQQn8D7EP5Bih/0la3zRCaQ== =QxJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----