From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 06:30:16 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ITARs effects
Message-ID: <199612161430.GAA20178@toad.com>
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azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear) writes:
> >Adam Shostack writes:

> [snip]
> > In my case the
> >government's lawyer has made it quite clear that they would consider
> >putting cryptographic software on a web site as a violation, and I
> >don't think that for this purpose there is any distinction either in
> >the government's mind or in reality between an FTP site and a web
> >site.
> >
> 
> These changes are all aimed at making it harder to make money from strong
> crypto and therefore reduce its common availability worldwide. They do
> little  to keep it from circulating worlwide, what ever its country of
> origin as anonymous posting to a newsgroup is still straightforward.
> 
> Look for more shareware and commercial crypto source to circulate in
> printed, rather than machine-readable, form to take advantage of freedom of
> speech rules.
> 
> -- Steve

>From the proposed regs:
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16. Section 734.7 is amended by revising paragraph (b) to read as
follows: 

734.7 Published information and software. 

                                          * * * * * 
Accordingly, such
encryption software in both source code and object code remains
subject to the EAR even if published in a book or any other writing                   
or media.          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Peter Trei
trei@Process.com