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Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Wed Feb 7 12:53:42 EST 2001


Dan Parisien wrote:
> 
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
> > Citizens of the U.S. or any other country with export regulations
> > for cryptographic software have to take care about themselves for
> > not getting into trouble by posting code to this list.
> 
> I know you are not a legal expert, but it seems you have more knowledge
> than me in this area. Does this export control only matter to US 
> citizens?
> What if crypto code written by Canadian citizens is hosted on a US web
> server? (PyAES on sourceforge.net)

Canadian and U.S. law seemed to be pretty similar. At least from a
European point of view. ;-)

Sorry, I can't give any useful information. I'd suggest digging the
openssl-dev mailing list archives with search string "export
restrictions" since this topic was discussed to death there.

Ciao, Michael.



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