Re: [Eben Moglen <moglen@columbia.edu>] Re: US crypto export restrictionsand GNU (fwd)

Randy Terbush wrote: > > nothing whatever to change the regulatory status of those products > > when they are "out" of the US. If the regs should become more > > restrictive in future, a topic already discussed sufficiently, copies > > "in" the US might not be able to leave, which would hardly matter > > since copies "out" of the US could enter the US freely and circulate > > outside the US freely without regard to US law (as opposed to the > > potentially equally insane laws potentially prevailing elsewhere). > While I do find it hard to swallow, representatives of the BXA have stated, > and confirmed their statement when asked to, that any offshore crypto > project incorporating US export regulated software into these offshore > projects will be subject to US export restrictions. I echo this; the briefings I've seen confirm exactly the same; and also seemed to confirm in clarification that this tainting effect was intentional. However insofar as I know no such clarification has yet been given, or is part of, as part of the (implementing) instrument. Which leaves it in a void. I guess this simply needs to be tried. Something which would be beneficial to all. The OpenBSD folks or a crypto VAR/integrator might have an interest. Dw