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Sending DES outside of USA?

Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 9:53 am
by jmr061
Is it now legal to ship des modules from the USA to outside countries?

Jason

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:33 am
by O Haue
Hi
As I see it it is legal to export UP TO 128 bit encryption to these countries:

ENC Country Group

Austria
Australia
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom


See also:
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/regs.htm

And:
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/19Oct2KFactsheet.html

Best regards
Otto

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 7:15 pm
by ricciticcitembo
I guess the NSA can crack it
easily by now. Must be the reason...

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 10:27 pm
by dvpman
There is always some dickhead who says "won't ship outside USA because it's to secure"

Mike