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| <h3 class="section">32.1 Legal Problems</h3> |
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| <p>Because of the continuously changing state of the law, it's not possible |
| to provide a definitive survey of the laws affecting cryptography. |
| Instead, this section warns you of some of the known trouble spots; this |
| may help you when you try to find out what the laws of your country are. |
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| <p>Some countries require that you have a licence to use, possess, or import |
| cryptography. These countries are believed to include Byelorussia, |
| Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Saudi |
| Arabia. |
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| <p>Some countries restrict the transmission of encrypted messages by radio; |
| some telecommunications carriers restrict the transmission of encrypted |
| messages over their network. |
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| <p>Many countries have some form of export control for encryption software. |
| The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral agreement between 33 |
| countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the |
| Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, |
| Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, |
| Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, the Russian |
| Federation, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, |
| Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States) which restricts some |
| kinds of encryption exports. Different countries apply the arrangement |
| in different ways; some do not allow the exception for certain kinds of |
| “public domain” software (which would include this library), some |
| only restrict the export of software in tangible form, and others impose |
| significant additional restrictions. |
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| <p>The United States has additional rules. This software would generally |
| be exportable under 15 CFR 740.13(e), which permits exports of |
| “encryption source code” which is “publicly available” and which is |
| “not subject to an express agreement for the payment of a licensing fee or |
| royalty for commercial production or sale of any product developed with |
| the source code” to most countries. |
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