British Telecom merger with MCI

[Simon Spero]

On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:

> 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 

[whoops] 
That's unusual - certainly, for the bigger companies it seems to be pretty
automatic, especially for NATO countries. Of course, it could just be that 
Phil is "known to the authorities".