From: IN%"PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com" "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" 10-MAR-1996 01:15:57.84
Thought the gotcha was down in the part about the Secretary of Commerce. My reading is that the secretary will still be required to grant approval for commercial export. Is past the part about no regulation inside the US (which is true now - still would be nice to see a "Congress shall make no law..."). The puzzler is the requirement that a comperable foreign product must exist before permission to export will be granted.
Will this be like "comparable product" price matching in discount houses ? Somehow there never is one...
Quite. A better format would be "as hard or harder for the NSA to decrypt," given the publically stated purpose for ITAR. -Allen