[67068] in Cypherpunks
Re: How might new GAK be enforced?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter D. Junger)
Wed Oct 2 12:21:11 1996
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 17:05:59 EDT."
<199610012106.RAA11318@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 12:03:21 -0400
From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Richard Coleman writes:
: I've always wondered why large companies just don't write some type of
: standards document for crypto to interoperate, and then have each
: foreign branch write (or contract out) their own version. I don't see how
: this violates export laws in any way.
The definition of ``software'' in the ITAR includes ``algortihms'' and
``logic flow'', so I suspect that the ODTC wouuld claim that the
standards are software that cannot be ``exported'' without a licnese.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu
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