Re: Government Backs Away from Crypto Regulations

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:21:33 -0500,
  Brian Kifiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> D. J. Bernstein writes:
> > However, it isn't clear at this point how binding the government's
> > promises are. We'll have to wait to see what Judge Patel says.
> 
> The quote was written a year ago minus one week.
> http://cr.yp.to/export/status.html still refers to a date in October
> 2002 in the future-sense.
> 
> Does anyone have any current information?
> 
> Hoping it may be good news,
> 
> Brian

Not really. I have seen comments in other discussion groups that the
government is still strongly discouraging the export of strong encryption
products behind the scenes while publicly saying that export restrictions
pretty much let people do what they want. This at least third hand information,
so it should be taken with a large grain of salt.