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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Message-ID: <CC85L8.CLn@veda.is> Date: 23 Aug 93 18:19:41 GMT References: <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> <258qov$i3e@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1993Aug23.083546.5676@gmd.de> <25aru3$cdv@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 19 mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >According to my reading, this makes it illegal to import or export the >algorithm for Ceasers Cipher... Or any compression program, unless it is the specific stated purpose of encryption that is subject to being regulated. On the other hand, if it is the cryptographic purpose that is restricted, then why should an application of cryptography as a method of authentication be regulated as if it were a military application of strategic importance? >Section 120.18 defines "Public Domain", but I couldn't find any reference >to public domain in any of the other sections. There may be a loophole >here somewhere... Why hasn't anyone found it yet? -- adam@veda.is