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RE: US export restrictions - a travellers guide ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodger, William)
Tue Jul 6 13:34:22 1999
From: "Rodger, William" <wrodger@usatoday.com>
To: Frank Andrew Stevenson <frank@funcom.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:59:47 -0400
Frank Andrew Stevenson wrote:
>
> Tomorrow I leave Oslo for the US, where among other things will attend
DEFCON 7. For this occasion I have prepared a 'black disk' containing ssh
executables that will allow me to communicate with my home network.
>
> Today I called the US embassy in Oslo to find out if I would be allowed to
bring the disk with >me back to Norway or if I would have to macculate it
before leaving the U.S.... A simple >question, or so I thought :-)
Don't sweat it, Frank. There are no laws against import of crypto into the
US. There is also an export exemption that lets people take out single
copies of heavy-duty crypto software on their laptops for their personal
use. You're covered.
Will
