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Re: Export permission, possibly lame

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory G Rose)
Tue Jun 10 12:09:39 1997

To: "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 09 Jun 1997 17:05:52 EDT.
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:18:04 -0700
From: Gregory G Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>

"Stephen Cobb, CISSP" writes:
>My apologies to the list if this is a lame question, but someone asked me
>what the procedure is, now, for a U.S.-based company, to get permission to
>send strong encryption products to wholly-owned subsidiaries abroad, for
>use in communications between those offices and the U.S. headquarters. 

It is a relatively straightforward procedure. The
Bureau of Export Administration of the Dept. Of
Commerce are the ones to submit the paperwork to.
Delays are about 6 weeks as of the last one we got
done, but they seem to be catching up rapidly...
the one before that (in January) took 10 weeks.
That was immediately after the changeover.

Lessee, I have a copy of a license with me (I'm
in Las Vegas) and the address is

  United States Department of Commerce
  Bureau of Export Administration
  P.O. Box 273, Ben Franklin Station
  Washington  DC  20044

>Any direction and/or tips much appreciated (if possible, they would like to
>avoid the process taking forever).

The form is simple, at least for simple reguests
(eg. bordergard crypto boxes).

(I can supply the address for the Defence Signals
Directorate in Australia too, but that is probably
less useful :-)

Greg.

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