[TriLUG] OT: SFTP international laws

[Robert Dale]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Glenn Starling <GJStarling at charter.net> wrote:
> My daughter is a US citizen living in Honduras.  She wants to send a
> large number of vacation photos to us.  I want to give her an SFTP
> account on one of my servers so she can upload the photos there.
>
> I haven't had any reason to keep up with the encryption laws.  A Google
> search didn't turn up any current definitive information, but I know
> many of the restrictions have been released in the past 6 years or so.
>
> Second question:  Does anyone know the Honduran regulations?
>
> I'm planning on visiting her this summer, and I'll also be needing SSH
> back to my customer's web sites while I'm there.  Otherwise, I'd just
> give her FTP access.

http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/lechart1.htm

The way I read it is that you can export encryption to anyone except
Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan.

When in doubt, download from a non-US mirror.

-- 
Robert Dale