EU Crypto Free Trade Area

[Peter Gutmann]

Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> writes:
 
>[Standard COCOM/Wassenaar software note]
>
>This seems to open a fairly wide road, given the amount of public domain
>crypto software to be found nowadays.
 
Are you sure the regulations don't include a little footnote somewhere which
creates another exception specifically for encryption software?  The pre-1996
European versions and Candian version don't have this, but most 1996 and
later versions do seem to have it.
 
Peter.