Re: Encrypted text illegal across US borders?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

Allen J. Baum says:
> I've been told that it is illegal for us to transmit encrypted text to
> locations outside the borders of the US (i.e. sending email across the
> Atlantic that is encrypted).
> 
> Is this true?

No US laws prohibit transmitting encrypted text, although some kinds
of text may be illegal to transmit, encrypted or non-encrypted. Other
countries may have laws prohibiting the transport of encrypted text
across THEIR borders, but the US isn't one.

Perry