[47821] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Tue Jan 23 23:18:13 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:13:39 -0800
From: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Dan Weinstein wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:39:03 -0500, perry@piermont.com wrote:
>
>
> >Set up development shop overseas for the crypto plug-ins.
> >
> >The solution is obvious and easy.
> >
> >By the way, I really think Netscape should simply ship Jeff and other
> >people to the Amsterdam office or wherever else seems reasonable and
> >do all the crypto work from there. It will save trouble and
> >hassle. U.S. citizens wanting full 128 bit over the net would then get
> >it from Netscape's overseas download sites. No one anywhere in the
> >world would be forced to use crap.
>
> Wrong, this would be a violation of ITAR.
David Chaum is doing it, why can't Netscape? I agree that it's
probably technically a violation. I think that the real thing
that's stopping Netscape is the golden government handcuffs, they
don't want to piss off a big customer.
thad
-- Thaddeus Beier thad@hammerhead.com
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