Import export laws

[Nicholas Bohm]

Dan Beale-Cocks wrote:
> Ann is a UK citizen, living in the UK.  She's going to a crypto 
> conference.  She'll want to take some paper publications, her paper 
> research, electronic verions of her colleagues' research, some software 
> (source and binaries) and some cryptographic hardware.  Ann has lots of 
> plain text and lots of cipher text on her laptop.  When she gets to the 
> conference she'll meet Bob, who's been working on similar problems.  
> They'll share their information.
> 
> a) The conference is in an EU country. OR
> b) The conference is in Turkey OR
> c) The conference is in any other country you like
> 
> Q1) What UK laws does Ann have to be aware of?  Is she likely to have 
> trouble with customs / airplane security if they ask her what all that 
> technical stuff is?
> Q2) How should Ann find out about any other laws that might affect her 
> or Bob?

It's fairly mind-numbing stuff.  The Government view of it, which Ann 
may prefer for an easy life, is found at 
http://www.berr.gov.uk/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/

Nicholas
-- 
Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley,
Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK

Phone  01279 870285    (+44 1279 870285)
Mobile  07715 419728    (+44 7715 419728)

PGP public key ID: 0x899DD7FF.  Fingerprint:
5248 1320 B42E 84FC 1E8B  A9E6 0912 AE66 899D D7FF