azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear) writes:
Adam Shostack writes:
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In my case the government's lawyer has made it quite clear that they would consider putting cryptographic software on a web site as a violation, and I don't think that for this purpose there is any distinction either in the government's mind or in reality between an FTP site and a web site.
These changes are all aimed at making it harder to make money from strong crypto and therefore reduce its common availability worldwide. They do little to keep it from circulating worlwide, what ever its country of origin as anonymous posting to a newsgroup is still straightforward.
Look for more shareware and commercial crypto source to circulate in printed, rather than machine-readable, form to take advantage of freedom of speech rules.
-- Steve
From the proposed regs:
16. Section 734.7 is amended by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows: 734.7 Published information and software. * * * * * Accordingly, such encryption software in both source code and object code remains subject to the EAR even if published in a book or any other writing or media. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------ Peter Trei trei@Process.com