Re: PGP 2.5 available from Electronic Frontier Foundation ftp site

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    From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
    Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 16:46:49 -0400 (EDT)
    
    Despite the patent & licensing issues being resolved, PGP is still
    not legally exportable from the United States (except to Canada),
    due to ITAR export restrictions which categorize cryptographic
    materials as weapons of war.  Thus, EFF can only make PGP and
    other crypto tools and source code available to US and Canadian
    nationals currently residing in the US or Canada and connecting to
    EFF's site from a US or Canadian site.

I was under the impression that NAFTA is the reason that Canada is
included.  Am I misinformed?  If NAFTA is the reason, isn't Mexico
equivalent to Canada in this context?  Could someone clarify this
aspect of the export situation, or perhaps point me at a document that
explains the situation?

			Zeke

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> I was under the impression that NAFTA is the reason that Canada is
> included.  Am I misinformed?  If NAFTA is the reason, isn't Mexico
> equivalent to Canada in this context?  Could someone clarify this
> aspect of the export situation, or perhaps point me at a document that
> explains the situation?
> 
> 			Zeke
I believe not.  The ITAR regulations have been around for a lot longer
than NAFTA.

I would speculate that it is because the US and Canada have traditionally
exchanged a lot of military technology and hardware, e.g. NORAD.

Zeke,

Read the ITARs. They're available by anonymous FTP from ftp.cygnus.com
as /pub/export/itar.in.full. There's a special section on exports to
Canada. Basically, most defense articles are exempt from ITAR export
licensing requirements to Canada; exceptions include things like
nuclear weapons components. However, there's apparently still a
reporting requirement, and I wonder how this applies to anonymous
FTP...

Phil