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Re: Response from Commerce Dept to "Is this man a crypto-criminal?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Jan 19 11:09:10 2000
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:48:35 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> ********
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> >Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:01:49 -0500
> >From: "JIM LEWIS" <JLEWIS@bxa.doc.gov>
> >To: <politech@vorlon.mit.edu>, <declan@well.com>
> >Cc: "EUGENE COTTILLI" <ECOTTILL@bxa.doc.gov>
> >Subject: Re: FC: Is this man a crypto-criminal? The Feds won't say...
> >
> >Declan: This point is worth clarifying. The new regs remove restrictions
> >from the posting of publicly available encryption source code for
> >downloading. The regs say:
> >
> >a) If you post encryption source code to a site on the net and anyone can
> >access it, you do not need to have it reviewed by BXA or obtain a license.
But isn't the whole point that he's posted binaries?
Cheers,
Ben.
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