US Restrictions for gnupg

[Werner Koch]

Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama at sky.rim.or.jp> writes:

> 1) Can we distribute gnupg tarball from US ftp site to other countries?

No.  Mainly because I have some doubts that you will have Internet
access in jail ;-)

> 2) Are there any restrictions about crypto code in gnupg?

No. GNUPG does not use any patented algorithms.  It is legal to export
gnupg from mayn countries but not from the U.S.  Debian uses a German
server for all "non-US" stuff.  

See:

   http://www.eff.org/pub/Crypto/ITAR_export/

for more.


  Werner