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And so it begins

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Thu Aug 10 11:48:28 2000

Message-Id: <200008101405.JAA03970@gungnir.fnal.gov>
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:05:48 -0500

This came third-hand, Sandia -> DOE -> me

> >             "Per the Office of Diplomatic Security, Department of State,
> > Egypt, France and Russia have instituted the following:  Laptop computers
> > with encryption capability are considered "SPY TOOLS" and will be seized
> > or denied entry into the country."    
> 
>               We understand that Kazakhstan has a similar position.

"With encryption capability" sounds a little vague, but that's par
for the course.

There's also an old note on this subject wrt. Russia at
http://travel.state.gov/gps.html.


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