[42971] in Cypherpunks
Re: lp ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter D. Junger)
Mon Nov 6 13:47:36 1995
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 13:37:28 -0500
"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
:
: Thaddeus J. Beier writes:
: > So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland
: > to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported
: > by UUNET. They can't do that, can they? Probably nobody would prosecute,
: > but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern
: > Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.
:
: It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal
: in spite of the export regulations.
Once again, what the ITAR forbid is the disclosure of cryptographic
software to a foreign person within or without the United States, so
it does not make any difference whether the message containing the
code passes through the United States or not.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu
