Encrypted text illegal across US borders?

Paul Ferguson paul at hawksbill.sprintmrn.com
Mon Aug 1 15:41:39 PDT 1994




> 
> 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?
>

No. Not only is it not true, it would be virtually impossible to enforce
were it actually true. 

You should slap the person who told you this with a yard stick.  ,-)

- paul
 





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