From: an52436@anon.penet.fi (Mephisto)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 04:03:00 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Applicability of ITAR
Message-ID: <9401311107.AA09748@anon.penet.fi>
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Hi,

A quick, and quite possibly stupid, question:

As an American living overseas, how applicable is ITAR to me?  Since I'm
already in a foreign country, does this also mean that I shouldn't be able to
receive any cryptographic software/books?  Does this, in a strict 
interpretation, mean that if I show my books on cryptography to my friends
here that I am breaking the law -- even though these books are publicly
available in the states?

I imagine that the answer is that the law applies to me just as much here as
it would were I living in the US still, but I'm curious....


						Mephisto
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