Commerce Department Unveils New Encryption Export Plan

By Anne Plummer / July 17, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Commerce Department will release today the administration's new plan governing encryption exports, a strategy that removes restrictions on businesses wanting to sell U.S. security technology to all European Union members plus 10 other allied nations, sources say. The White House's proposed new regulations would grant license exemptions after a one-time review regardless of the product's key length, or codifying "strength." The proposed regulations would also erase distinctions between "retail" products sold for commercial purposes and those sold to government...

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