[14351] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why it is legal to export PGP under ITAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Sat May 28 02:50:53 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 23:47:52 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199405280642.XAA05875@jobe.shell.portal.com>; from "nobody@shell.portal.com" at May 27, 94 11:42 pm
nobody said:
> The US ITAR law exempts many things from export restrictions, among them,
> materials availiable in public libraries.
The gotcha is that you can't necessarily *put* it in a library.
It's like the publication catch-22.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu