Encrypted text illegal across US borders?

[Carl Ellison]

>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 14:11:44 PDT
>From: baum at apple.com (Allen J. Baum)
>Subject: Encrypted text illegal across US borders?

>I've been told that it is illegal for us to transmit encrypted text to
>locations outside the borders of the US (i.e. sending email across the
>Atlantic that is encrypted).
>
>Is this true?

I'm no lawyer, but no, this is not true.

(There are some foreign countries which take a dim view of encrypted traffic
coming in, but the US has no laws against it.)

Who told you this?

 - Carl