At 1:49 PM 1/21/96, Daniel A. Monjar wrote:
I've lurked for quite a while now. It is time to ask my first newbie question. I'll be going to Taiwan for three weeks in March. Is there likely to be any problems at US or Taiwan customs if I take Applied Cryptology 2/e along for personal study?
The first edition of Applied Cryptography has explicit permission to be exported, thanks to Phil Karn. It's not clear that he needed to ask, except as a setup for asking permission to export the same material on floppy disks; books normally get lots of slack because they look surprisingly like the kind of thing the First Amendment covers. (It's also not clear that he _didn't_ need to ask, given Dan Bernstein's attempts to get official permission to teach cryptography.)
On the Taiwan side, though, they may wonder why you brought an expensive U.S.-printed copy when you get the special rice-paper edition of "Applied Cryptography, 2nd Ed." for the equivalent of $2.25 in Taipei's book stalls.
If this were Singapore, they might consider it subversive literature, because it is :-) Don't know about Taiwan; you can tell them it's a computer textbook or math textbook if they ask any questions. Rice-paper editions of books are especially good if you need to eat them in a hurry when the Feds are raiding you.... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # # "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" used to mean us watching # the government, not the other way around....