[47910] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Wed Jan 24 19:52:02 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: iagoldbe@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:49:37 -0500
Reply-To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
In article <199601242348.PAA03565@ns1.vplus.com>,
Dan Weinstein <djw@vplus.com> wrote:
>I forget how it is termed in ITAR, but expertise can't be exported
>either. Another thing to remember is that Jeff and the others at
>Netscape aren't writing the encryption algorithms themselves, they
>implement the code that they get from RSA. Though most of the
>code they get from RSA is already available abroad, if they wanted to
>import it they would face serious copywrite problems with RSA. Also,
>like I suggested before any programers who gained their knowledge of
>crypto programing in the U.S. and then went abroad and developed
>crypto software would be in danger of prosecution under ITAR if they
>ever returned to the U.S..
So how about my situation? I'm a Canadian student, currently studying
in the US. Are you saying that if, after I get my degree and return to
Canada, it would be illegal for me to write and export crypto stuff?!
What if I'm in Canada for a few weeks between semesters and I write
something then?
- Ian "this is all really dumb..."
