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Re: Personal use exception to ITAR/EAR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Jan 6 16:04:25 1997

Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:55:30 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>

Steve Bellovin wrote:

>I haven't waded through TMP yet -- it's arcane, to say the least -- but
>BAG (which is in 740.14 now, at least on jya's page) looks to be useless
>for many of us.  Section (c)(1) notes that the software must be ``owned
>by the individuals'' -- which presumably excludes things like corporate-owned
>cryptographic software.

Since Greg wrote his note, we've added a large number of amendments to
the EAR from the Key Escrow revisions of December 13, and the Encryption
Transfer revisions of December 30 -- some of the latter revised amendments 
only two weeks old! Part 740 is wonderful humor of patchwork regs herding 
crypto wildcats.

    http://jya.com/eartoc.htm

The original Personal Exemption doc (now included in EAR) is at: 

     http://jya.com/itar021696.txt



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