Taking crypto out of the U.S.
Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?
Theres a personal use exemption. Michael Froomkin's web page has a pointer to it. Adam Hamish wrote: | Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take | my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have | encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation | of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over? | | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Hamish wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Hamish <haggis@brutus.bright.net> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Taking crypto out of the U.S.
Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?
Not if nobody else is allowed to use i (but some theif could cause you to violate ITAR ;)... the real question is: do they have 120 VAC plugs in Japan? ... --Deviant Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Hamish wrote:
Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?
I'm not rendering a legal opinion here, but I will try to make your position clear. 1> It depends 2> It depends 3> It depends. First, what encryption type is it? Some encryption is freely exportable. Second, is it just encrypted data you're exporting, or also the means to encrypt/decrypt it. (It's not clear from your post) Third, do you plan on telling anyone what's on your drive? -- I hate lightning - finger for public key - Vote Monarchist unicorn@schloss.li
Hamish wrote:
Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?
Bad enough now that many places require you to put your laptop computer through the big gray x-ray machine (no exceptions in some places, especially federal buildings in the U.S.), but if they start requiring you to list individual files (?????).
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