SFL and New U.S. Encryption Export Regulation

All,

On 14 January 2000, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export
Administration published a new regulation implementing an update to the U.S.
Government's encryption export policy
<http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/Default.htm>.  Many have asked if this
new regulation impacts the distribution of the S/MIME Freeware Library (SFL)
developed by J.G. Van Dyke & Associates (VDA) under contract to the National
Security Agency (NSA).  NSA controls the distribution of the SFL.  They are
reviewing the new regulation to determine if the SFL source code can be
freely distributed.  As soon as I hear of any changes to the distribution
policy for the SFL, I will inform this mail list.  While NSA is evaluating
the impact of the new regulation to the SFL distribution policy, VDA still
considers the SFL as being export controlled.

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John Pawling, Director - Systems Engineering
J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc;
a Wang Government Services Company
[email protected]
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