At 03:46 AM 6/5/96 +0000, jonathon wrote:

paul:

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Robichaux wrote:

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the NTT chipset for use, say, in a Motorola cell switch (made in IL) would seem to be problematic. Buying chips in Japan for shipment to Moto's phone factories in Singapore and Malaysia, however, would appear to be OK. Under

So the companies simply ship their _entire_ production facility offshore, to whichever country has no crypto export regulations.

<< Any guesses on just how long ITAR stays around, once several companies announce they are terminating the employment of 1000+ people, for work overseas, because of ITAR? >>

And doing all of their manufacturing offshore means they could use Triple-DES, or BlowFish, or any other crypto algorithm.

I seem to recall an announcement recently that Senator Burns is going to have a hearing "soon" on his crypto bill. If that's true, I think it would make a good publicity scene if somebody (if possible someone giving testimony) were to show up with one of these NTT encryption chips, wave it around a bit, and say "I can bring this chip into the country, why can't I take it out again?" Even if you can't get ahold of the real chip, any multi-pin bug will probably do for the sound/video-bite. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com