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Re: Canadian mirror of cryptlib & SSLeay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Tue Jan 14 16:09:44 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:47:29 -0800
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970114102129.11284B-100000@fractal.mta.ca>,
Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca> wrote:
>I made SSLeay available after I spoke with the Department of Foreign
>Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT, Canada) on Monday. They told
>me it was no problem to export crypto software from CANADA.
>
>The confusion comes from Canada's open border with USA. Due to the open
>border policy from the 40s (?), Canada agrees to _honour_ export
>restrictions of *USA origin goods*. This is to close a loop hole of
>importing to Canada and then shipping goods to Cuba. Canada trades with
>Cuba, but USA does not.
Also see http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/crypto-export.html,
where Marc Plumb reports how he went through everything needed to export
crypto from Canada, *including USA origin crypto*. Note especially:
# If you want to send crypto software over the Internet, you might be
# allowed to do it without any paperwork. I was told, by Keith Watkins of
# Revenue Canada Customs and Excise, that Canada Customs does not have the
# authority to regulate Internet communications. This seems strange to me,
# and other people at Canada Customs told me to file the paperwork before
# making the export. I think that it would be nice to file the paperwork
# even if it is not needed, mainly to tell Statistics Canada about your
# exports so they can know how important the Internet is.
- Ian
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