Test case for RSA t-shirts
[I posted this to comp.org.eff.talk but got virtually no response, maybe someone here can make use of it] In July I'll be going to the US for a conference. I have one of Adam Backs RSA-in-perl t-shirts and am prepared to wear it into (and possibly back out of) the country if anyone feels it would do any good (for example to act as a test case for exportability). If anyone thinks this would be useful or wants to offer a legal opinion, let me know. For something less trivial, I can also carry in a disk of crypto code or something similar (say, 20 pages of DES bar codes) and see if I'm allowed to take it back with me. Peter.
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
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In July I'll be going to the US for a conference. I have one of Adam Backs RSA-in-perl t-shirts and am prepared to wear it into (and possibly back out of) the country if anyone feels it would do any good (for example to act as a test case for exportability). If anyone thinks this would be useful or wants to offer a legal opinion, let me know. [...]
While we're on the subject, I called Sam Capino's office regarding my CJR for this t-shirt, and he said they were still waiting for a response from the NSA. I think my next move will be a letter asking exactly when I can expect a response, and whether there's anything I can do to compel a response, It was originally filed (in October) as a 15-day expedited review. Thus, the actual legal status of the shirt is murky. Don't be surprised if they approve it after they quit stalling. Raph
Dave Del Torto wrote:
At 1:08 pm 3/30/96, Raph Levien wrote:
While we're on the subject, I called Sam Capino's office regarding my CJR for this t-shirt, and he said they were still waiting for a response from the NSA. I think my next move will be a letter asking exactly when I can expect a response, and whether there's anything I can do to compel a response, It was originally filed (in October) as a 15-day expedited review.
FYI, PRZ mentioned to me last night that the CJR on the OCR-able book of PGP source is still pending. The "15 days" has stretched into about a year in that case, if I don't have my dates/the facts wrong. Bob Prior at MIT would know.
So much for expediency in commerce.
I don't think that either the book or the t-shirt qualify for the expedited review. My brief skimming of John Gilmore's CJR site a few months ago left me with the impression that only mass market commercial software that fit within the SPA/govt deal (40-bit RC2 or RC4 with RSA keys <= 512-bits) was eligible to be expedited. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
At 1:08 pm 3/30/96, Raph Levien wrote:
While we're on the subject, I called Sam Capino's office regarding my CJR for this t-shirt, and he said they were still waiting for a response from the NSA. I think my next move will be a letter asking exactly when I can expect a response, and whether there's anything I can do to compel a response, It was originally filed (in October) as a 15-day expedited review.
FYI, PRZ mentioned to me last night that the CJR on the OCR-able book of PGP source is still pending. The "15 days" has stretched into about a year in that case, if I don't have my dates/the facts wrong. Bob Prior at MIT would know. So much for expediency in commerce.
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