Question on export issues

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Jan 3 12:52:17 EST 2008


On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 08:30 -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> In my personal experience, if you are developing a mass-market item with 
> conventional crypto (e.g., SSL, S/MIME, etc ) then it is fairly routine to 
> get a commodity export license which lets you sell globally.
> 
> Disclaimers abound, including that I'm not a lawyer and certainly don't 
> speak for IBM.

My question was more on the lines of "what gets rejected", not "what
does it take to do it".

Is there some technology that they are so afraid of that they still
won't let it ship or does it just matter who you are, not what it is?

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