Re: How might new GAK be enforced?

[azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)]

>Richard Coleman writes:
>
>: I've always wondered why large companies just don't write some type of
>: standards document for crypto to interoperate, and then have each
>: foreign branch write (or contract out) their own version.  I don't see how
>: this violates export laws in any way.
>
>The definition of ``software'' in the ITAR includes ``algortihms'' and
>``logic flow'', so I suspect that the ODTC wouuld claim that the
>standards are software that cannot be ``exported'' without a licnese.

No, I don't think they'd be able to stretch things that far.  If designs
for software merely defined a plug-in interface (not specifically
referencing crypto) it would be very difficult to prevent.



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