From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> J. Random Hotmail User, you'd better learn to read the text of the bills you so blithely think are OK.
Well, I read the text of the bill, and here is part of what it says: `(2) ITEMS NOT REQUIRING LICENSES- No validated license may be required, except pursuant to the Trading With The Enemy Act or the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (but only to the extent that the authority of such Act is not exercised to extend controls imposed under this Act), for the export or reexport of-- `(A) any software, including software with encryption capabilities-- `(i) that is generally available, as is, and is designed for installation by the purchaser; or `(ii) that is in the public domain for which copyright or other protection is not available under title 17, United States Code, or that is available to the public because it is generally accessible to the interested public in any form; This sounds like it should cover the kind of crypto that we are talking about and that Ian Goldberg does. It is generally available and installable by the purchaser (it's free) and it is in the public domain and generally accessible to the interested public, etc. And see, there are no export licenses for this. There is another part that has the stuff you were talking about re "diversion" and terrorism, but that is separate. It is for software that is not generally accessible and installable by the purchaser and all that. More specialized stuff, like custom packages. But cypherpunks software is for everybody, and this bill should make it free to export. "John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com