Personal use crypto export

Ian Goldberg iang at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Nov 21 18:07:23 PST 1997



In article <v03007812b06adf711815@[163.176.132.90]>,
Lee Tien  <tien at well.com> wrote:
>I agree with Tim May, I believe it's no longer an issue.  While the current
>EAR/crypto regs don't expressly say "personal use OK," they can be read
>that way under several exemptions, and I'm reliably told that BXA does.

>(f) Special provisions: encryption software subject to EI controls.
>
>(1) Only a U.S. citizen or permanent resident as defined by 8 U.S.C.
>1101(a)(20) may export or reexport encryption items controlled for EI
>reasons under this License Exception.
>
>(2) The U.S. person or permanent resident must maintain effective control
>of the encryption items controlled for EI reasons.
>
>(3) The encryption items controlled for EI reasons may not be exported or
>reexported to Country Group E:2, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria.

So I can't take my laptop to Anguilla, right?  (I'm not a US citizen or
permanent resident; I'm pretty sure I don't fall under the TMP exception
either, but I haven't checked in a while.)

   - Ian







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