On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Garza, Hortencia [BEELINE] wrote:
I work in export compliance and would like to know if you would please
answer the questions below in regards to your application, R for Windows
1.3.1. The information I'm requesting is for export compliance.
I'm surprised that you would consider replies from random mailing-list members
as sufficiently reliable information for this. The R Foundation for
Statistical Computing would be the authoritative source, although they might
not be willing/able to answer questions that appear to require knowledge of
export control law in the unspecified country you are exporting from.
RE:
Application: R for Windows 1.3.1
Uwe Ligges has already pointed out that R 1.3.1 is *seriously* outdated.
Application Description: statistical computing and graphics
Vendor: R-Project
Export Compliance Questionnaire for Software Clearance
1. Does software run on standard PC?
Yes
2. Does software contain custom features not available off the
shelf?
Not clear what this means. The copy of R you downloaded does not contain any
custom features that aren't in the copies that other people downloaded back in
2001.
3. Does software use encryption algorithms for access passwords?
The standard R distribution does not. I don't expect any single individual
could say whether all the contributed packages do; you would have to ask the
maintainers of any packages you wanted to export.
If encryption algorithm is beyond password security, please respond to
the following;
1. What is the key length (in bits) of encryption algorithm?
2. Is algorithm publicly available? (if yes, please provide name
of encryption algorithm and web site URL where available.)
3. Are there any unique features of encryption such as open
cryptographic interface, network infrastructure applications, etc?
Again, the standard R distribution does not use encryption, but contributed
packages may. For example, the randaes package contains a random number
generator that uses the Advanced Encryption Standard block cipher.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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