Subject: US excport rules after Jan-12,2000

From: Anders Rundgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:36:24 +0100

Hi,
A few months I put questions regarding this in this list and apparently the september-1999
deal was impossible to "swallow" or "interpret" and therefore the US department of commerce
have made a new try.

http://204.193.246.62/public.nsf/docs/60D6B47456BB389F852568640078B6C0

It looks much better but does it allow all users (from all but the seven "bad" countries)

1. To download US versions of Internet Explorer or Navigator
2. To buy (over the net) US-issued e-mail certificates with 1024-bit keys
3. To buy US-produced smart cards (using ordinary mail order) containing strong crypto
4. To buy US versions of Windows, Solaris etc. with the same ease as you today buy export versions

If the answer is yes I would say that this would be the biggest boon to PKI since it
was invented!!!

Anders

A strange piece of the new deal is that government users are discriminated  Why?