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Subject: Re: Encrypted data across national boundaries???
From: "Igor V. Semenyuk" <iga @ sovam . com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:01:30 +0400 (MMTDST)
To: ted @ kgbvax . network . com (Ted Doty)
Cc: MAHAJAN_VIVEK @ tandem . com, firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199508111511 . LAA09748 @ kgbvax . network . com> from "Ted Doty" at Aug 11, 95 11:11:38 am

> There doesn't seem to be a single cipher that can be used everywhere (except
> the short list: Libia, North Korea, etc), EXCEPT for banks.  This is mostly
> the ITAR, but other places (France for sure; rumors have it that Australia
> also restricts crypto ... can anyone confirm ot deny this?) also have their
> own restrictions on crypto use ("Damn it ... that's against the First
> Amendment!  It's downright un-american!" ;).
> 

You can't import crypto hard/soft to Russia without permission
from Ministry of External Trade (which as I understand turns
it to FAPSI). You also can't use crypto hard/soft without FAPSI's permission
to communicate over public networks here.

Refer to Yeltsin's Decree of April, 6, 1995.

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Igor V. Semenyuk                    Internet: iga @
 sovam .
 com
SOVAM Teleport                      Phone:    +7 095 956 3008
Moscow, Russia 


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