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Re: Encrypted text illegal across US borders?
>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 14:11:44 PDT
>From: [email protected] (Allen J. Baum)
>Subject: Encrypted text illegal across US borders?
>I've been told that it is illegal for us to transmit encrypted text to
>locations outside the borders of the US (i.e. sending email across the
>Atlantic that is encrypted).
>
>Is this true?
I'm no lawyer, but no, this is not true.
(There are some foreign countries which take a dim view of encrypted traffic
coming in, but the US has no laws against it.)
Who told you this?
- Carl