-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 13 Feb 1996 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:

Concerning the ITAR ...... what would happen if some Evil Hacker Dude in, say, England, decided to ICMP-ping a host in America? Nothing wrong with that ...... but if those ping packets contained little pieces of something like PGP ...... would the host being pinged be breaking the law? Would all the hosts in the route between that host and the host in England that was doing the ping also be breaking the law?

Exporting encryption to the U.S. from another country is not illegal, only exporting from the U.S. is. The method of transmissioni is irrelevant. It does not matter if TCP packets or ICMP-ping packets are used to transmit the data. However, it has not been decided if all of the hosts in between the source and the destination are violating the law. Since it is impossible to monitor the contents of every packet being transmitted over a network, I seriously doubt that any intermediate host would be considered to be in violation of ITAR. - --Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMSJD7rZc+sv5siulAQH7dQP/U2CsagSQYv7opIIU40drvTNXoHeryL0H Q5KhJczjXJOCulRpuJiXULVpbWA9qYAEJ9vz3+mLs+EEiQ3ge+MxiIYA35wBTI0g qfZh0qEmZjL5wMb+js2awwOGrsy0NsUsSgsHlbWItZ3/ZVrH7j7oI4LmrUKHNshQ DmiADuwUlVM= =cdEk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----