I'm in El Paso Texas... so close to the border I can see Old Mex outside my window as I write this.. I'm over there nearly every day for lunch ( I actually walk there from my house it's so close) If I write a crypto program on my laptop over there and ftp it to a web page I have on a server outside the US will I have avoided the foolish export regs?? Does anyone know of someone trying this before??
Well, how do you plan on ftping it, if you use a PCMCIA modem car and a cellular phone and the cell it transmits to is in the US it could be argued that you exported crypto because the data went mexico->USA->elsewhere, however, using a normal land-line would be totally legal, having said that the program would have to be written outside the US, not just carried out on a laptop then ftp`d as otherwise you`ve exported. Overall I would recomment flouting the export laws, as jumping through hoops to obey these regulations merely panders to the wishes of the authorities, anyway, how likely do you think you are to get caught? Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"