How might new GAK be enforced?

[Peter D. Junger]

Richard Coleman writes:

: I've always wondered why large companies just don't write some type of
: standards document for crypto to interoperate, and then have each
: foreign branch write (or contract out) their own version.  I don't see how
: this violates export laws in any way.

The definition of ``software'' in the ITAR includes ``algortihms'' and
``logic flow'', so I suspect that the ODTC wouuld claim that the
standards are software that cannot be ``exported'' without a licnese.

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