At 09:29 AM 1/29/97 +0200, John Ioannidis wrote:

Please note that in some countries such as the USA, it is unlawful for a citizen of that country to provide technical assistance "with the intent to aid a foreign person in the development or manufacture outside the United States" of "Encryption Items".

I think there is a partial 'out'. If a US company is attempting to interoperate with your code and fails, they can point to the part of a public specification related to the failure. Such as our implementations failed to interoperate related to section n.m.o of rfc wxyz. But I am not a lawyer, only heard this explaination 3rd hand from a lawyer. Robert Moskowitz Chrysler Corporation (810) 758-8212