Re: ITP seahorse
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:16:24PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com> writes:
>
> > You are also right in saying that the crypto in the Debian non-US tree
> > might well fall within the new rules and be legally exportable to most of
> > the world, but there is still a prohibited list (Libya, Cuba, Iran, Iraq,
> > North Korea, etc.) of countries to which export of even widely available
> > crypto is prohibited from the US, so posting on the Internet is not
> > allowed without at least some kind of gate checking.
>
> If I understand the texts Branden quoted, you do not need to actively
> check that.
>
> Furthermore, at least some software in non-non-US (containing DES, for
> example) is already in the "export-everywhere-exept-Libya" category,
> so this point is pretty moot. Either we breach the regulations
> already, by possibly exporting libcrypt to Libya, or we won't have
> problems with possibly exporting netscape-US.
AIUI, there is an awful lot the US won't export to certain nations,
and not just crypto... I don't think we have to worry about that,
though.
Jules
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