[337] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: export/import status of Russia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikhail A. Sokolov)
Thu Mar 13 09:29:45 1997
To: marc@cygnus.com (Marc Horowitz)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:03:42 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net,
mishania@demos.su (Mikhail A. Sokolov)
In-Reply-To: <t53afo8v3m7.fsf@rover.cygnus.com> from "Marc Horowitz" at Mar 12, 97 11:05:04 pm
From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
Reply-To: mishania@demos.su
Hello,
> "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu> writes:
> >> A client has asked me to look into communications from their local offices
> >> in Russia to their main headquarters in the US. They would like to use
> >> local ISP's in Russia and set up an encrypted VPN over the Internet. Does
> >> anyone have any good pointers to legal status of import/export policies in
> >> Russia, and any suggestions for products.
> In addition to the problem Sameer describes, I seem to remember that
> Russia was planning to establish France-like restrictions on the use
> of crypto, which may make it illegal for your client to use crypto
> there at all. I don't know if such a law has been passed, or if so,
> how easily it is to get past, or how strictly it is enforced.
> As usual, check with a lawyer familiar with regulations on both sides
> of the (ahem) curtain, and everywhere in between.
I contacted our corporate lawyer, and since we are an ISP here, in Moscow,
Russia, we were interested in it lately also. I collected all legal
documents which I got from him under the URL ftp://ftp.ru/pub/legal/crypto/.
All documents are in Russian, koi8-r encoding. I can advise to start reading
from 333.txt and 334.txt.
My comment: I doubt if I know anyone who followed those restrictions ;-)
> Marc
-mishania
ls -la ~ftp/pub/legal/crypto/
total 132
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ms 512 Mar 13 15:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 ms ms 512 Mar 13 14:57 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ms 19648 Mar 13 15:02 333.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ms 6397 Mar 13 14:58 334.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ms 17512 Mar 13 15:00 608.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ms 40409 Mar 13 15:00 legalization.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ms 35017 Mar 13 14:59 minsviazi.txt
