Will Rodger wrote:
At 01:25 PM 9/29/97 +0000, Jim Burnes wrote:
ACME corporation, a mostly Canadian outfit with a major subsidiary in the US, wants to roll out corporate wide crypto.
Most of their network operations are in the US except one of their offices in Ireland.
Question (1): Can they buy a strong crypto package in the US and physically roll it out to both Canada and Ireland.
Nope. Though Canada allows export of strong crypto generally, Canadians may not re-export US products once they enter the country.
Yo, dude! If the company buys PGP 5.0, then their Ireland office can obtain the freeware version from an overseas site, or have their Canadian office send it to them. Freeware is legally exportable from Canada. (I lost my pointer to the site that explains the legal implications, but Adam Back might have it unless he is doing as many drugs as myself, and has lost it, as well.) Also, there is a Canadian company which has a decent full-strength crypto package, can't remember the name of their product, but if you contact Dimitri, he can tell you, although he will also point out that the commie ratfucking cocksucker Chris Lewis is connected with the company. And, realistically, regardless of the source of the crypto package a Canadian company uses, or the restrictions against its export, unless the company makes a point of advertising their sharing of the software with their Irish subsiduary, it would be a point of extreme embarassment for Canadian officials to harass a Canadian company for sending strong crypto to another member of the British Commonwealth, even if it no longer officially exists. I know several companies that do so, and they have no problems. A Loser To Be Flamed Later Bienfait Bureau Squaw Electronic Forgery Foundation