Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 12:48:41 -0600 From: sjb@universe.digex.net To: jis@mit.edu (Jeffrey I. Schiller) Cc: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>, Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legal to export DES outside of the US via Canada? Message-ID: <9512151848.AA12246@ozymandias.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sat, 09 Dec 1995 15:44:34 CST.) <acefb16e010210040158@[153.37.193.29]>
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Jeffrey I. Schiller writes >Ah. But when a Canadian receives ITAR controlled code from the U.S. he/she >has to agree not to export it from Canada (we have to require this >otherwise we cannot send it to the Canadians!). There's the rub. ITAR says crypto may be exported to Canada without a license "for end-use in Canada by Canadian citizens or return to the United States, or from Canada for end-use in the United States or return to a Canadian citizen in Canada" (126.5(a)). U.S. law doesn't (normally) apply to Canadian citizens, even though the U.S. LEAs seem to think it should, so, having received ITAR-controlled code under the above exemption, the Canadian citizen may do with it what he will. It violates only the agreement he made with the exporter, not law. No one will come to get him, and the exporter should be safe from judgements. IANAL, but it sounds like the sum of all this is like all those other dumb laws that probably made sense when they were passed, like the one that makes it illegal to shoot indians on Congress Avenue, here in Austin, Texas, or the one in (I think) Maryland requiring that when a woman drives an automobile, a man must run at least 15 feet in front of it with red flags to warn other motorists.
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