From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 26 05:09:55 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA17686 for security-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:09:55 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA17680 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:09:52 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA25150; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:09:31 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507261209.FAA25150@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: secure/ changes... To: tweten@frihet.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sef@kithrup.com, security@freebsd.org, mark@grondar.za, pst@stupi.se In-Reply-To: <199507261107.EAA08554@tale.frihet.com> from "David E. Tweten" at Jul 26, 95 04:07:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1688 Sender: security-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Sean Eric Fagan writes: > > You can import as much encryption software as you want, *PROVIDED* it wasn't > > illegal exported. (I don't understand why that is the case.) > > Another interresting assertion. If true, all the people who download their > copies of MIT PGP from off-shore are in violation. That prospect doesn't seem > to worry any of the scores of people who post to alt.security.pgp about their > adventures doing so. As with Rod's import assertion, yours is the first > assertion I've seen that there is any dependency on kind of previous export. > > The only restriction on import I'm aware of is a requirement to license > transit importation. That is, munitions can't be trans-shipped through U.S. > territory without a license. The problem, of course, is not really the > import half of the transaction, it is the export half. And any US import involves an _export_ from some other country, so you have to look at that as well. The US is far from the only country with crypto sofware as a restricted export. > I'd appreciate it if you could recheck your verification and report back to > the list. It is important that we U.S. citizens not scare ourselves into > believing that our government is more repressive than it actually is. The US government is a very repressive thing, more so than even I care to admit to. Anything that burns up millons of dollars a day regulating people has just gotten out of hand, but this is a whole nother thread. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD