Re: British Telecom merger with MCI

On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:

Phil Karn failed to get an export license for 3des for foriegn offices of Qualcomm, staffed by Americans. See www.eff.org/pub/Crypto/ITAR_export/nsa_3des_export_denial_0396.letter

[whoops] That's unusual - certainly, for the bigger companies it seems to be pretty automatic, especially for NATO countries. Of course, it could just be that Phil is "known to the authorities".