Re: newbie questions

[Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>]

At 12:45 PM 6/16/99 +0200, Mark Zinthefer wrote:
>is it legal (can i get away with it) for me to send/recieve encryption
>programs through my email? i'm an american  and i'm studying in germany at
>the moment but i'm not sure if the exchange of that kind of stuff would
>conflict with US export restrictions. 

You can receive encryption programs, and you can receive and send 
encrypted data, but sending encryption programs except to people 
in the US or Canada or US citizens overseas is problematic -
it might not be illegal, because you're not exporting things,
but you might be "providing defense assistance" or something.

>is this the proper forum to post a program for peer review? i'm curently
>debugging a program of mine and i've hit a bug that i can't seem to fix.
>i'd like to show it to people who know what they're doing to see if they
>can see the bug. i'd also like a place to get comments on weakness that
>the program might have or suggestions on how to strengthen them.

Sure, post it here, if it's at least somewhat crypto-related - 
we might take a break from talking about guns and censorship and such :-)
If you don't get a useful enough answer, you can also try coderpunks@toad.com.

				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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