re can des code be shipped to canada in article strnlghtc wkrt ja netcom com strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes i believe it is illegal to send any cryptographic code out of the country without an export license others will correct me if this is inaccurate glad to you are correct it is illegal to send cryptographic code and lots of other things out of the country without a license however every us citizen has a general export license allowing export of lots of things including constitutionally protected speech this has the effect that it is legal for us citizens to export some things which it is illegal for a us corporation to export without first obtaining a license dunno if you d get one for the particular code you have the only way to find out is to apply for a license nope talk to a good lawyer in the area of export law but in general the government has to have a very good national security case to try prevent the export of anything you personally might wish to publish yes i worded that the way i did intentionally it is a lot easier for the government to try to prevent the export of information than to charge someone with a crime after the fact espionage is probably the only exception note that you need to distinguish between what is legal to send to canada if you have such a license and what is legal to send if you don t if you are a us citizen you have a general license i am not a lawyer so take some of this with a grain of salt however i have also had to swim through both itar and export regs in a few cases robert i eachus with standard disclaimer use standard disclaimer function message text in clever ideas return better ideas is
