Bill Stewart wrote on 1999-07-20 18:06 UTC:
> The real question is whether there are any Danish laws against
> exporting crypto, and whether they apply only to physical exports
> or also to publishing information on your web site.
The relevant Danish law should be the same as in the rest of the
European Union: the EU Dual Use Directive (Council Regulation (EC) No
3381/94 of 19 December 1994). The EU has export controls in place on
commercial and military cryptographic software and systems. Public
domain and shrink-wrapped mass-market software are explicitly excluded
from these restrictions. So you can put any cryptographic software for
free download onto your web site as long as you are not violating other
regulations (copyright, patent, etc.). Note that in some European
countries (e.g., Germany), unlike under US law, non-commercial products
such as freeware are fortunately not affected by patents.
Literature:
Exportkontrollen für Verschlüsselungsprodukte,
Harald H. Roth, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (1+2/1998) pp 8-13 & 81-85.
http://www.larissa.frankfurt-online.de/rkineu/encryption.html
http://jya.com/roth-crypto.htm
Hope this helped ...
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
