Re: [CryptoAPI-devel] working with international crypto

[Ben S. <sl...@st...>]

The question is whether CryptoAPI project is in some way "in" the US.
ISTR that the kerneli project was based somewhere else to avoid US
crypto regs (however easy they've become of late).

Is CryptoAPI in the US?
Where is SourceForge, for that matter?

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:09:28 -0700, David Bryson wrote:
> So, I did a little research today on crypto laws for people in the US.
> Turns out since our stuff is open source all we are "supposed" to do is
> send a letter to the bureau of export administration telling them a few
> things and a copy of the source code.  I'm not sure if we even care about
> this, personally i don't, i just thought i would look it up.
> There was a section on working on crypto with people outside the US and
> apparently that's OK too if it's open source.  So i'm not seeing a whole
> lot of problems here, it's just a question of whether we want to send them
> a letter or not... suggestions, ideas, flames ?

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