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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
[...]
> 
> Supposedly under the recent new regs, anyone in the US is now allowed to
> export crypto providing they jump through some variety of hoops and submit
> a copy of the code to the government, but I haven't heard any
> authoritative steps on what precisely needs to be done. It would certainly
> help a lot to be able to do this (commit crypto to freefall) without
> feeling like an arms smuggler.

The new rule is that any US citizen may export open-source crypto,
including posting
it on the Internet, simply by sending an e-mail to a particular e-mail
address at the
commerce department. No other requirements exist. I would have to
presume that by
now someone sent ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ to the commerce
department. :-)


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