On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:14:30AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:29:15PM -0400, David J. Weaver wrote: > > > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to > > > download Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? > > > > Yes. They do this to get around the fact that the US has some rather > > braindead cryptography laws... > > Granted. But they are decidedly less braindead than they were ten years > ago...
s/laws/regulations/ AFAICT, it was/is the implementing regulations rather than the actual law where the cryptography exports were/are restricted. Though regulation /may/ actually be harder to change than the enabling legislation unless the changes are ramrodded from the top down or a court invalidates the regs. There's apparently a treaty relating to this matter called the "Wassenaar Arrangement" and some Executive Orders thrown in for good measure... -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
