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- From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Subject: Re: RSAREF and RIPEM
- Organization: the best minds of a generation, destroyed by madness
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:50:44 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Owen.Lewis@purplet.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:24:00 +0000
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- In article <36.2B51F28B@purplet.demon.co.uk> Owen.Lewis@purplet.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis) writes:
- -=> Quoting David Sternlight to All <=-
- DS> We next come to the point of whether the act is a violation of the
- DS> national laws in the country where the downloader is. From what
- DS> responses I've seen so far to that inquiry, it probably is in France,
- DS> Germany, maybe Italy, Canada, and the U.K., not the Netherlands, and
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- As of 1st January 1993, there are no longer export/import restrictions
- between member states of the EC. Therefore, the movement of PGP NL/UK,
- NL/IT, NL/GE, NL/FR (or any of the 16^2 combinations possible) is no
- longer any concern of national member states. National regulations
- regarding the use of PGP or other strong cryptology may still exist.
-
- I'd be surprised if the import and export of munitions aren't still restricted,
- even though regular commercial goods can now be traded more freely.
- Governments tend to treat such things specially :-)
- Obviously, check your local laws to see whether crypto software is a munition.
- --
- # Pray for peace; Bill
- # Bill Stewart 1-908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
- Bush's pardon of his co-conspirators shows that he is, in the end, still a wimp.
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