CDR: New crypto regs?
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Sat Oct 21 14:24:03 PDT 2000
[http://www.pscu.com/Newsbytes/2000/156920.html]
New Encryption Regulations Take Effect On Today
October 19, 2000
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes.
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
Published By Newsbytes News Network
In the final step toward matching the European Union's recent
liberalization of rules governing the export of encryption products,
the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration has
published a final rule allowing the export of encryption products of
any strength to 15 EU nations and eight other trading partners.
The announcement cements changes proposed in July, when the Clinton
administration said it would relax laws governing the export of
powerful encryption technologies to allow exports of all
information-scrambling products to any end user in the European Union,
as well as Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Japan, New
Zealand, Norway and Switzerland.
The move, designed to match recent shifts in encryption export policy
for EU nations, also eliminates the 30-day waiting period that had
been imposed on companies exporting encryption goods to EU nations and
other trading partners. Instead, companies will now be required to
submit a "commodity classification request," and will be allowed to
ship products without waiting for a review from federal regulators.
Previously, companies could export "retail" - or off-the-shelf -
encryption products to nearly any country, except those labeled as
terrorist or high-risk nations, such as China and Russia. But for
exports of non-retail products, US companies had been required to
obtain a license before they can export to the governments of any
other country.
By contrast, the EU allows companies in its member states to export
encryption products without a license to a set list of 25 countries,
and makes no distinction as to whether the end-user is a government or
non-governmental entity.
The new encryption regulations to take effect today eliminate the end
user, retail and non-retail considerations for encryption exports
destined for roughly 23 common trading partners.
For more information on the published regulations, visit
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/Default.htm
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com
11:57 CST Reposted 13:59 CST
(20001019/WIRES ONLINE, PC, LEGAL, BUSINESS/ENCRYP/PHOTO)
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