British Telecom merger with MCI

[Adam Shostack]

Simon Spero wrote:

| On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Peter D. Junger wrote:
| > Has anyone figured out how this merger can work, particularly when
| > British Telecom will be the surviving party, when those MCI employees
| > concerned with the security of communications will not be able to
| > disclose any cryptographic software or technical data to their
| 
| It's reasonably  trivial to get export licences from both countries 
| for foreign subsidiaries. Also, British Telecom and GCHQ have a 
| friendly working relationship, and any merger is unlikely to change
| these facts.

Phil Karn failed to get an export license for 3des for foriegn offices
of Qualcomm, staffed by Americans.  See
www.eff.org/pub/Crypto/ITAR_export/nsa_3des_export_denial_0396.letter 

Adam


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