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- From: ghenzie@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Gregory M. Henzie)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Future of US crypto export regulations
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 04:39:53 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Nov5.010142.15906@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov5.010142.15906@leland.Stanford.EDU> kocherp@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Carl Kocher) writes:
- >
- >P.S. Does anyone know whether crypto exports to Britain and Canada
- >are still prohibited?
- >
-
- Actually as of August 29, 1991, the Commodity Control List allowed GDTR letter
- of assurance licensing to COCOT, Austria, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland
- only. I had to verify this for a DES program a friend of mine wrote, DESHEL20
- (check archie for a list of sites). Basically that covers most of the free
- world.
-
- There were some Senate hearings on the matter this year, although I really
- didn't have the time to follow them. Anyone out there know any more about
- the results (if any, hehheh) of the hearings?
-
- Btw: for those of you out there with a copy of the August 29, 1991 Federal
- Register Vol 56, No 168, please refer to pages 42875 and 42876... In
- in particular Section 5E11A Advisory Note 5. Under that, DES could possibly
- (I haven't verified this interpretation) be shipped legally to the People's
- Republic of China, provided that it is for civil use. (I personally oppose the
- export of encryption technology to the PRC).
-
- Granted, a lot of people are still ignorant of even the exportability of
- crypto technology in the "new world order".
-
- As far as I know, the only countries that the GDTR letter of assurance does
- not allow are as follows (this may be out of date):
-
- Group Countries
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-
- Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, People's Republic of China, Syria
-
- Q Romania
-
- S Libya
-
- W Czechoslovakia, Poland
-
- Y Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Estonia, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania,
- Mongolian People's Republic, Geographic area of the former
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (includes Armenia, Azerbaijan,
- Belorussia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Maldovia, Russia, Tajikistan,
- Turkmanistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
-
- Z Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam
-
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-
- That was transcribed from the sample letter of assurance that the author of
- DESHEL20 had shown me, and that was sent to him by the Bureau of Export Admin.
-
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