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Re: Remote use=export?
Jeff Gehlbach writes:
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: I apologize if this is a dead horse, but...
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: Is granting use of crypto software running in the US to a remote user
: outside the US considered exportation? For example, if allow my friend in
: Paris to use a PGP binary residing and running on my PC in Washington, is
: either of us violating any ITAR or similar restrictions?
Nothing about the ITAR is unambiguous, but since what is forbidden is
``exporting'', which includes ``disclosing to foreign persons'', and
since use is not forbidden, it is hard to see how what you suggest
could violate the ITAR. (And I don't know of any other U.S. law or
regulation that it could violate.)
On the other hand, it may violate French law, which, or so I
understand, does forbid the use of crypto unless the keys are made
available to the French government. But I really don't know anything
about French law.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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