On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Derek Atkins wrote:
student from coming to the US. By allowing the student into the US, the gov't is implicitly giving them the right to use PGP within the US.
This is kind of a risky policy to take. The general feeling I get that allowing non green-card holders access to strong cryptography is sort of decriminalised, in that the police aren't likely to break down your door and have your AFS server accidentaly fall down stairs. However, it is still against the law, and could be used against the university in other unrelated circumstances. It seems that licences allowing foreign nationals access to cryptographic software within the US are pretty easy to get, and especially for something like PGP on a central machine. Simon // My name is Spero, Simon Spero - licence to encrypt