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Re: lp ?

"Perry E. Metzger" writes:

: 
: Thaddeus J. Beier writes:
: > So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland
: > to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported
: > by UUNET.  They can't do that, can they?  Probably nobody would prosecute,
: > but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern
: > Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.
: 
: It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal
: in spite of the export regulations.

Once again, what the ITAR forbid is the disclosure of cryptographic
software to a foreign person within or without the United States, so
it does not make any difference whether the message containing the
code passes through the United States or not.

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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