-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally) Wrote:
Dan Weinstein writes:
By the way, I really think Netscape should simply ship Jeff and other people to the Amsterdam office...
Wrong, this would be a violation of ITAR.
I don't understand; are you saying Jeff's brain is a munition under the ITAR?
(Is it a citizenship thing? If so, that's an easily solved problem: hire Dutch (or Egyptian or Bangali or whatever) engineers.)
I forget how it is termed in ITAR, but expertise can't be exported either. Another thing to remember is that Jeff and the others at Netscape aren't writing the encryption algorithms themselves, they implement the code that they get from RSA. Though most of the code they get from RSA is already available abroad, if they wanted to import it they would face serious copywrite problems with RSA. Also, like I suggested before any programers who gained their knowledge of crypto programing in the U.S. and then went abroad and developed crypto software would be in danger of prosecution under ITAR if they ever returned to the U.S.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMQbINb6vSB2TMALlAQG8zAf9FFlCiiYS86Q/ZsiycSXN0w7hT+NdVHI5 8fBVaT+w+OP5DZAbEMg7gM37ryujuDXnRO12WJTa8HTT5+W81TDf6vzgK2yWqShZ kCM6j48nUttwYsXVGUpK2uSSBhLs1+y7lLPObs0I9BNZ9QZ3o/68jpRXnsph3+Oc J4XEe6Yf1u/V4wM58hO8v1fClcCHSyeIFZL+i8NdhcO+BO71qBhOntsGWuVu+sM0 jN7/hix1do+xA856EkRzPoqv0LPcJkCjF3qw+iCKdI7y6LWljA91LJvrYedONu9V cigMrsQF4QFJ2CHrxulolzMPuz4ZNg9K/ZjWoY2t8wgs57dDiojKTQ== =ehWV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Dan Weinstein djw@vplus.com http://www.vplus.com/~djw PGP public key is available from my Home Page. All opinions expressed above are mine. "I understand by 'freedom of Spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. Friedrich Nietzsche