EU Crypto Free Trade Area

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 14:30 12/03/1998, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>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.

If so I certainly missed it; and the text I quoted expressly overrode the
content of all the categories, so an exception to it could not have been
tucked away inside the categories.

Can you quote me the text of the note you have in mind from previous
versions?  That would make a further check rather easier.

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