Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> writes:

Bill said:

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... and have been trying to work on the Irish...)

and Adam said:

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Ireland is new to me. What's their problem?

Ditto! I'd like to know because ...

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Who's exporting things to attract spook export attention over there?

Systemics is an Irish company, and so is Baltimore, and we both are 'exporters' depending on one's viewpoint.

So's SSE (subsidiary of Siemens-Nixdorf). But that's mostly/all defense stuff, so they're presumably in thick with the military intelligence, and export permission would be a snip for them.

I don't know about Baltimore, but there is not a lot of pressure they can put on Systemics, as the majority of the Cryptix effort is now handed over to non-Systemics people. That's the beauty of freeware.

Ireland allows intangible export, no permission required, same as UK. They do say they would like a list of customers after the fact, but that's just would like, not you are required to give or else. (Clearly it would be a bit difficult to list the customers off your open access web page). For tangible exports you need permission, much as in the UK. I get the impression that the `open for business' attitude (love that 10% corporate tax break, is systemics getting this?) would mean you'd get an easier time than in the UK. They promise fast efficient turn around on export applications. (Unlike NZ MFAT, reread Peter Gutmann's story of down under intrigue on http://jya.com/nsazeal.htm amazing, nearly bankrupted the company!)

In contrast, I have been told that Ireland represents a prime place for this sort of stuff, as there are no restrictions whatever.

I think it's better than say UK. But clearly not `no restrictions' at least for tangible exports re above comments. I don't know how this works out in practice, what they give tangible export permission to, etc. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`