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Re: Questions regarding export restrictions in Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Roessler)
Wed Jul 21 11:23:57 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:36:51 +0200
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Mail-Followup-To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <E116ri7-0006Ox-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
On 1999-07-21 09:26:38 +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> The relevant Danish law should be the same as in the rest of the
> European Union: the EU Dual Use Directive (Council Regulation (EC)
> No 3381/94 of 19 December 1994). The EU has export controls in
> place on commercial and military cryptographic software and
> systems. Public domain and shrink-wrapped mass-market software are
> explicitly excluded from these restrictions.
As far as I know, last year's Wassenaar results have been
implemented EU-wide, that is, the shrink-wrap exception is not valid
for cryptographic software beyond a certain degree of strength.
But note that crypto can be freely exported to EU countries. For
hardware crypto, this is new.
