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Re: export/import status of Russia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Bell)
Sat Mar 15 17:43:16 1997
To: CR <cryptography@c2.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "12 Mar 1997 23:05:04 EST."
<t53afo8v3m7.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:16:29 +0000
From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>
In message <t53afo8v3m7.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>, Marc Horowitz writes:
>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.
A law was passed on 3rd April 1995 prohibiting unauthorised
crypto. A license is also required for importing crypto facilities
made abroad. I don't know how strictly it is enforced, but there is
some information at:
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/cls2.htm#ru
The home page for the survey I quote is:
http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm
Derek
