I have been checking out the Canadian rules for exporting crypto. Basically (according to "A Guide to Canada's Export Controls", published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) public domain software can be exported from Canada -- one might need to file a form with Canadian Customs for each export, but the export it self is legal. (Public domain is defined as technology that has been made available without restrictions upon it's further dissemination. Copyright restrictions do not remove technology from the public domain. So, I'm not quite sure if PGP falls within that definition.) Synchronicity! [argh] I had been considering making a posting along
On Jul 24, 10:15am, M. Plumb wrote: the same lines. Note that the form required [EXT 1042(09/93)] has a $15 processing fee. (Which might be peanuts if we're selling a frigate, but which is a royal pain for a piece of crypto.) Page 1, "A guide to Canada's Export Controls", April 1994 General "Software" Note This list does not embargo "software" which is either: 1. Generally available to the public by being: a. Sold from stock at retail selling points, without restriction, by means of: 1. Over-the-counter transactions; 2. Mail order transactions; or 3. Telephone call transactions; and b. Designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier; or 2. "In the public domain". <sigh> Excerpts relating to Canadian Export controls on cryptography should be up somewhere off http://www.io.org/~samwise/interesting.html#privacy towards the end of the week. frodo =) -- Richard Martin Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team] rmartin@alias.com/g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992