Re: Exporting from Canada (was Re: Let's try breaking an SSL RC4 key)

["Richard Martin" <rmartin@alias.com>]

On Jul 24, 10:15am, M. Plumb wrote:
> I have been checking out the Canadian rules for exporting crypto.
> Basically (according to "A Guide to Canada's Export Controls",
> published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
> Trade) public domain software can be exported from Canada -- one
> might need to file a form with Canadian Customs for each export,
> but the export it self is legal. (Public domain is defined as
> technology that has been made available without restrictions upon
> it's further dissemination. Copyright restrictions do not remove
> technology from the public domain. So, I'm not quite sure if PGP
> falls within that definition.)
Synchronicity! [argh] I had been considering making a posting along
the same lines. Note that the form required [EXT 1042(09/93)] has a
$15 processing fee. (Which might be peanuts if we're selling a
frigate, but which is a royal pain for a piece of crypto.)

Page 1, "A guide to Canada's Export Controls", April 1994

General "Software" Note
This list does not embargo "software" which is either:
1.	Generally available to the public by being:
	a.	Sold from stock at retail selling points, without
		restriction, by means of:
		1.	Over-the-counter transactions;
		2.	Mail order transactions; or
		3.	Telephone call transactions; and
	b.	Designed for installation by the user without further
		substantial support by the supplier; or
2.	"In the public domain".



<sigh>

Excerpts relating to Canadian Export controls on cryptography should
be up somewhere off http://www.io.org/~samwise/interesting.html#privacy
towards the end of the week.

frodo =)

-- 
Richard Martin 
Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team]
rmartin@alias.com/g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu
Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992