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- From: kaufman@kibitz.enet.dec.com (Charlie Kaufman)
- Subject: Re: is kadmind exportable as a binary? if so, begging letter.
- Message-ID: <9208150147.AA08319@easynet.crl.dec.com>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:47:25 GMT
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- Ted Ts'o writes:
-
- >Just to set the record straight; it's not just the United States. Any
- >of the twenty or so countries who have signed the COCOM treaty will have
- >such restrictions. The COCOM treaty basically says that any
- >cryptographic material will be treated as *munitions*, and you are not
- >allowed to export munitions to another country --- even including
- >to another country which has signed the COCOM treaty --- without an
- >export license.
-
- I've heard this story before; I've even told it. Recently I've seen an
- announcement from University College London making crypto code
- available for use with OSI protocols. It claims to be freely
- exportable anywhere except the U.S. (where it would infringe on the RSA
- patent rather than violate export laws). I assume the U.K. is a COCOM
- country, so this would appear to contradict the statement above (unless
- UCL is ignorant of the law or has chosen to ignore it).
-
- Does anyone have any idea how they get away with it? I'd settle for
- caveated theories.
-
- --Charlie
-