Re: restrictions to exports

Hi,

AFAIK these laws were repealed by the Clinton administration except for 
limited cases of export to a small handful of countries, like Iraq.

Anthony

Andre Engels wrote:

>
>As far as I know these laws (but I hardly know them, so please somone
>correct me as I likely am wrong), no. The restriction is only on programs
>and such, not on information. As far as I know the export of algorithms
>such as DES is not forbidden, it only is forbidden for keys of a certain
>length or longer. Wikipedia might show the algorithm, but that is key-size
>independent information, and thus seems to not fall under those laws.
>
>Again, this is more gut feeling than actual knowledge, so don't trust me
>too much...
>
>Andre Engels
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