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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: RSAREF and RIPEM
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726791382@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1993Jan08.214621.24299@rose.com> <1993Jan8.233626.10066@netcom.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 22:29:42 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
-
- > In response to Bob Heuman, I am coming around to the pragmatic view
- > that since the violation of U.S. law is exporting controlled material,
- > the violator is the person who downloaded it, not the person who
- > put it on a bulletin board. I'm uncomfortable with this, for obvious
- > reasons, but never mind.
-
- Really? How nice... So, if you put some top secret information for
- anonymous ftp and I happen to get it, it will be me the guilty one,
- not you, right? Wanna give it a try? :-)
-
- > We next come to the point of whether the act is a violation of the
- > national laws in the country where the downloader is. From what
- > responses I've seen so far to that inquiry, it probably is in France,
- > Germany, maybe Italy, Canada, and the U.K., not the Netherlands, and not
- ^^^^^^^
- > Finland. I'd like more hard information on this point, though, from
- > those who can quote the national laws directly.
-
- As usually, you are wrong. I checked with a person in BSI (the Federal
- agency for Information Security in Germany). There are NO restrictions
- on importing crypto software in Germany. There are NO restrictions on
- using public key encryption software in Germany, although if GATT is
- agreed upon, this might change (the US patent laws will apply). When I
- asked him all those questions, his reaction was: "What are you speaking
- about? PGP? Yeah, I got it too - nice program"...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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