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Re: Drastic crypto crackdown

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tzeruch@ceddec.com)
Mon Aug 25 14:00:51 1997

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:46:39 -0400
From: tzeruch@ceddec.com
To: Nilsphone@aol.com
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <970825121537_17461110@emout16.mail.aol.com>

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 Nilsphone@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 97-08-25 05:33:08 EDT, you write:
> 
> > .  The company's Web server does check domain
> >  names to detect whether the software might be going to Libya, Iran,
> >  Iraq, Cuba, Angola, Syria, North Korea, France or Singapore.
> >  
> Why are France and Singapore on the hot list????

Probably because they do not allow use or import of strong cryptographic
software.  It is a fusion of the countries that we don't want to have
crypto software, and those that themselves don't want it imported. 

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