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Baker on Gilmore's Wassenaar Foil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Dec 8 17:04:05 1998
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:29:07 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Response to a forward of John Gilmore's message to UK Crypto:
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0500
From: <sbaker@steptoe.com>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re:Foil to Wassenaar
:
:
I would only add this caution. I think John is wrong in giving legal
advice that Wassenaar is not binding without implementing legislation.
That is an American approach to these matters. I believe that many,
perhaps most, Wassenaar members derive their authority to regulate
exports directly from the arrangement itself. For that reason, I would
not assume that everyone everywhere is free to ignore the new
restrictions until some further law or regulation is promulgated.
Stewart Baker
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
202.429.6413
sbaker@steptoe.com
Baker & Hurst, "The Limits of Trust -- Governments, Cryptography,
and Electronic Commerce" is now available from
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9041106359
