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US law on re-exporting crypto software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Feb 19 21:17:29 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:49:00 -0500
From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
An article in the current issue of the German journal `Datenschutz und
Datensicherheit' claims that exporting crypto software from anywhere
outside the US to a third country violates US law if the software
contains (only marginal amounts of) US-developed code, such as a C
standard library, and that anyone distributing crypto software that
has been compiled with an American compiler had better not visit the
United States. Is that true?
