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Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
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[email protected] (Mike McNally) Wrote:
> Dan Weinstein writes:
> > >By the way, I really think Netscape should simply ship Jeff and other
> > >people to the Amsterdam office...
> >
> > Wrong, this would be a violation of ITAR.
>
> I don't understand; are you saying Jeff's brain is a munition under
> the ITAR?
>
> (Is it a citizenship thing? If so, that's an easily solved problem:
> hire Dutch (or Egyptian or Bangali or whatever) engineers.)
I forget how it is termed in ITAR, but expertise can't be exported
either. Another thing to remember is that Jeff and the others at
Netscape aren't writing the encryption algorithms themselves, they
implement the code that they get from RSA. Though most of the
code they get from RSA is already available abroad, if they wanted to
import it they would face serious copywrite problems with RSA. Also,
like I suggested before any programers who gained their knowledge of
crypto programing in the U.S. and then went abroad and developed
crypto software would be in danger of prosecution under ITAR if they
ever returned to the U.S..
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Dan Weinstein
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"I understand by 'freedom of Spirit' something quite definite -
the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say
No.
Friedrich Nietzsche