NOTE: This service has been temporaily suspended due to the "sobig" worm. I am not forwarding or archiving mail at this time; send your export reports directly to the government at crypt@bis.doc.gov and enc@ncsc.mil . Sorry for any inconvenience.
U.S. cryptography export rules were relaxed in January 2000,
especially for freely-available software source code. Check out the
CDT,
EFF
or
EPIC sites for
details, but basically you can now make
open-source cryptography source code available on the web, provided that
you send email to the Commerce Department export people telling them the
URL. I maintain a publically-archived alias for this purpose; if you
send your notice to
exports@crypto.com,
it will be automatically forwarded to the government (at
crypt@bxa.doc.gov) but will also be archived at
http://www.crypto.com/exports/mail.txt
for all to see. (Older messages are archived at
http://www.crypto.com/exports/mail.20030607.txt
compressed in .gz format). Using the exports@crypto.com alias may
help others find your software.
Note that the mail.txt url contains the raw text of each email message received (with new messages at the end of the file). Depending on your browser configuration, this might cause strange things to happen when you follow the link. To prevent executing random code that might appear in these mail messages, I suggest you turn off things like Java and Javascript before viewing the messages.