: which otherwise would have been illegal. FBI special agent was standing by to : make sure no other laws were broken, as could have happened in technology : demonstration. Event was practical demonstration of what Subcommittee Chmn. : Markey (D-Mass.) called "the 'sinister side' to cyberspace." ... : Gage said export laws prohibit selling abroad of particular encryption : computer programs. Yet he showed panel text of computer program pulled off : Internet, from Finland, of prohibited source code for Data Encryption Standard : (DES) used by U.S. govt. In that case, law wasn't broken because program was : imported, not exported. Adding comma to code would route program to Moscow, Gage : said, so he didn't add it because there was no immunity. Also set up in room was : satellite hookup to Moscow using small earth station made by KGB, which was in : contact with Russian satellite. My inference from this is that if they went to the bother of checking to make sure they knew about the laws and explicitly arranged immunity for the scanner demonstration, we can take it as read that *import* of crypto wares is *not* illegal, as some have tried to suggest. Graham PS I'm xposting this to sci.crypt