Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Export Controls

2006-07-03 Thread Robert McGwier
In the early days of the "encryption is an armament" issue, Phil Karn produced DES code that was widely distributed. He was harassed for having done so. I was asked to comment on all of this at the time because Phil was one of my best friends at the time (and continues to be) and I worked

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Export Controls

2006-06-28 Thread Daniel Garcia
> It seems to me that a USRP with a Gnu Radio > filterbank in the back-end is such a receiver, > and is thus subject to U.S. export control. That part of the law is meant to deter the export of radios what can be used for surveillance of things like cell phone frequencies. For example, CDMA us

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Export Controls

2006-06-28 Thread John Clark
Marcus Leech schrieb: So, I was reading over a superficial summary of U.S. export controls today, and discovered that radio receivers capable of more than 1000 channels (what the heck is a channel?) and able to switch channels in under 1ms are export-controlled technology. It seems to me tha

[Discuss-gnuradio] Export Controls

2006-06-28 Thread Marcus Leech
So, I was reading over a superficial summary of U.S. export controls today, and discovered that radio receivers capable of more than 1000 channels (what the heck is a channel?) and able to switch channels in under 1ms are export-controlled technology. It seems to me that a USRP with a Gnu Rad