[Cryptography] eliminating manufacturer's ability to backdoor users

[Watson Ladd]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:
>
>>What in the iPhone is illegal *today*?
>
> According to the Wassenaar control lists, about half the phone, if you take it
> across a border without an export license.
>
> Also most laptops, desktop PCs, home video games, and other similar items.

RTFA, in particular note 2 on cryptography.  You can bring your phone
with you and use it and not be an arms smuggler. Furthermore, the
question is about what the national legislation says: Wassenaar is not
self-executing.

Does anyone actually know of a case where BIS denied a license since
2001 or so to cryptography exports without changes?

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