Industry Satisfied As Encryption Export Laws Go Into Effect

By Anne Plummer / January 14, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration published its new policy on export controls for sophisticated encryption products today in the Federal Register , promising to review the "workability" of the regulations over the next 120 days. Industry representatives pushing to relax export controls on such products have claimed the new policy is a victory for U.S. businesses. While the laws are complicated, according to many industry sources, the new rules seem to liberalize export laws even further than anticipated...

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