Re: Laws concerning cryptography in different countries

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/30/03


From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 30 Mar 2003 20:31:05 GMT


"atapen@softhome.net" <atapen@softhome.net> writes:

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]unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in
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]> farefin@fastmail.fm (Last Man Standing) writes:
]>
]> ]Could anyone suggest a RELIABLE website where I can find laws
]> ]concerning the use of cryptography in all the countries of the world
]> ](third world countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh included)?
]>
]> Wh, what do you mean by reliable? If you are going to base your
]> actions on it, no web site is good enough. It is you or your collegues
]> who will go to jail, not the web site author. Hire a lawyer in each
]> country who is familiar with the crypto laws of that country.

]So if I was to go out and hire a lawyer in each country who if familiar
]with the crypto laws of that country, and ask them to generate a web site
]for me, their advice would suddenly become unreliable the moment it was
]uploaded?

Find me such lawyers and such a web site, and I will alter my advice.

a)No lawyer would do it.
b) And How would I know to trust that site.
So the answer to your question is "Yes".



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