On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, sameer wrote:
I think many people on the list here had the right idea generally. No legislation is good legislation for crypto. Really the ITAR applications are beseiged right now, and will probably fizzle out of their own accord, not to mention the fact that they are de facto moot.
In practice it is trivial to subvert ITAR for the purposes of worldwide crypto availability.
You've obviously never brought a crypto product to market before.
No, in fact, I have not. What are the impediments to corporate marketing of crypto where the marketing and distrubting entity is foreign? (I honestly don't know) Granted, worldwide *personal* use of crypto availability is
trivial, but not corporate.
Sufficently entrench personal use of crypto, and the personal/corporate use distinction ceases to exist.
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