[TriLUG] OT: SFTP international laws

[Nick Goldwater]

First of all as a US citizen abroad I would expect to be able to communicate to anyone I wish in the US in any manner I feel fit. 

Here is what I found since the question piqued my interest:

<snip>
APPENDIX III - Computer Tier Country Chart in 2006

COMPUTER TIER: 1
COUNTRIES: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, 15 Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia (The), Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Republic of), Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom (The) and all territories thereof, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 
</snip>

I believe you need to find a current Computer Tier Country Chart and all the listed countries in Teir I are OK. At least this may narrow a query to a lawyer and save some time.

Nick 

----- "Kevin Kreamer" <kevin at kreamer.org> wrote:

| Unfortunately, the standard answer here is that you need to ask a
| lawyer.
| 
| Kevin
| 
| On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Glenn Starling
| <GJStarling at charter.net>
| wrote:
| 
| > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 06:54 -0400, Robert Dale wrote:
| > > 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
| >
| > Thanks for the link.  My concern is that exporting encryption isn't
| the
| > same as using encryption.  I really don't think it will be a problem
| on
| > the US side like it was a decade or so ago, but thought I'd ask. 
| Also,
| > I don't have a clue about Honduran laws.  Again, I don't think it
| would
| > be a problem but wanted to ask BEFORE rather than AFTER.
| >
| > -- Glenn
| >
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