FROM A FRIEND . . .

[Jeff Weinstein]

In article <43qvn4$mm at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, iagoldbe at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg) writes:
> In article <43qrhf$gd5 at tera.mcom.com>,
> Jeff Weinstein <jsw at neon.netscape.com> wrote:
> >  I think that the general opinion of engineers and management here at
> >Netscape is that it would be A Really Good Thing to have our US-only
> >128+ bit version of Netscape Navigator available for download by US
> >citizens and others who are not legally prohibited from using it.
> 
> Who _is_ legally prohibited from using it?  I think there are some countries
> where the very use of crypto is illegal (could someone please list them?),
> but who else?
> 
> There are some people that may be legally prohibited from _obtaining_ it
> from a US site (ITAR yadda), but even so, if JRFurriner downloads
> crypto from company C's site in the US, who's guilty of ITAR-violation?
> Company C for making it available, or JRF for initiating the action
> that caused the bits to be send out of the country?

  Poor choice of words on my part.  My understanding is that we can not
export our US-only product, except to canada - for the use of canadian
citizens.  I also believe that it is illegal for anyone except US citizens,
permanent residents of the US (green card holders) and Canadian citizens
to use it, even within the US.  I'm not a lawyer, and I've not read
all of ITAR myself, so I could be totally wrong...

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw at netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.