Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 17:24:36 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>, jis@mit.edu Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: legal to export DES outside of the US via Canada? Message-ID: <199512090124.RAA15606@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 14:27:04 PST." <199512082227.OAA00937@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
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This is an amazing loophole if it is true, but like the old saying goes,
it sounds too good to be true. All it would take would be two coopoerating
parties to legally export (non-patented) non-commercial crypto code.
If this is true, I wonder why MIT's crowd of friends didn't pick up on it
with respect to Kerberos (which sounds like it meets all criteria)?
Paul
From: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
mmm...canada.
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I just got confirmation from the Canadian government that free
software is not controlled by any cryptographic export or usage laws
in Canada.
Yes, this means we're free to include any and all cryptographic stuff
that we want in any place in the source tree, as long as licensing,
patent, etc. issues are handled.
The actual text of the law is being mailed to me. I'll be able to
quote from it later if anyone wants further details.
BTW, in a twist of law, when I asked about ITAR the gentleman said
that ITAR doesn't enter into the picture at all. Apparently one could
bring ITAR code into Canada, and the Canadian government has no law on
the books to prevent it from being re-exported to the world. I'd
always suspected this loophole; the fellow picked up rather quickly on
what I was suggesting..... and made it clear that there'd be no law
to prevent one from doing so! (not that I want to re-export ITAR)
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