From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@chrysler.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:12:59 -0800 (PST)
To: ietf-sectest@toad.com
Subject: Re: Reminder: Release 0.4 of my Linux IPSEC code is out.
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At 09:29 AM 1/29/97 +0200, John Ioannidis wrote:
>
>Please note that in some countries such as the USA, it is unlawful for a 
>citizen of that country to provide technical assistance "with the intent to 
>aid a foreign person in the development or manufacture outside the United 
>States" of
>"Encryption Items". 

I think there is a partial 'out'.  If a US company is attempting to
interoperate with your code and fails, they can point to the part of a
public specification related to the failure.  Such as our implementations
failed to interoperate related to section n.m.o of rfc wxyz.

But I am not a lawyer, only heard this explaination 3rd hand from a lawyer.



Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212