RE: Export controls (was RE: Documentation confidentiality level policy )

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 You never, ever want to be a test case.    

Even the lawyers don't want to be standing too close to you when that happens. 

:-) 

Also, if you are in the biz of crypto and info-sec and such, then you tend to support all the latest, bestest, strongest. 

What nobody bothers to point out is that all such stuff - theory as well as practical algorithms to implement it - is so easy to move around that "the bad guys" (flavor of the week) already have it before the meeting is over at which you discussed maybe applying for an export permit.  

 - Kevin  (whoops, I just pointed it out - sorry Echelon, didn't mean to wake you...)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Garison
> 
> It's not that you can't export it, but you do have to tell the  
> appropriate agencies that you are doing so and get their OK 
> before you  
> can. But I admit I haven't worked in this area in a couple of years,  
> so things may well have changed.
> 
> JG
> 
> 
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> 
> > US export controls on cryptography are not as strict as they used to
> > be. However, there are some software companies that won't do any
> > cryptographic development work within the US because of the export
> > controls.
> >
> > Some relevant links:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography#Export_controls
> > http://xkcd.com/504/
> >
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