Re: Re[2]: use of RSA outside US

• To: Hannula Antti <ahannula@ncsmsg01he.ntc.nokia.com>, owner-www-security@mit.edu
• Subject: Re: Re[2]: use of RSA outside US
• From: warlord@mit.edu
• Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:27:14 -0400
• Cc: "'www_security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>, Tom.Zmudzinski;www-security@MIT.EDU;, hallam@mit.edu
• In-Reply-To: "[568] in WWW Security List Archive"

> Concerning banning the cryptography over public access frequencies,
> in which other countries is that forbidden than in UK and France?

It is illegal in the US as well, if you define "public access
frequencies" as Amateur Radio.  The FCC rules state that it is illegal
to hide the meaning of of transmission.  This is interpreted as
encrypting, using any kind of secret code (verbal or digital), or even
using some unpublished compression technique!  This does not rule out
authentication (so a PGP-signed message sent over Packet Radio is
fine, as is using Kerberos authentication), so you can use crypto for
that, but not for hiding messages.

Enjoy!

-derek

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         Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
    Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.htm
       warlord@MIT.EDU    PP-ASEL     N1NWH    PGP key available

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