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1.7 deraadt 6: <h2>Export Control List </h2>
1.1 deraadt 7: The Canadian Export Control List controls the export of goods from Canada. Goods on the list require a license from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is promulgated under the authority of the Export and Import Control Act of Canada.
8: <p> The following are excerpts from that List regarding the export of Cryptography from Canada.
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1.6 david 10: These are taken from the pamphlet titled <b>A Guide to Canada's Export Controls</b> available from
1.1 deraadt 11: <a href=http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL-locn.html>International Trade Centers of the Gov't of Canada </a> across the country.
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14: <p>The following excerpts are taken from the Guide.
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1.6 david 16: <h2> Group 1- International Industrial List</h2>
1.1 deraadt 17:
18: <p><i> Definitions to the terms set out in quotations are listed in pages 49 to 55 of this Guide and apply in respect to this Group.</i>
19: <p> <h3> 1000. General Technology Note</h3>
20: <p>
1.5 miod 21: The export of "technology" which is "required" for the "development", "production" or "use" of a products embargoes in the International Industrial List is controlled according to the provisions in each Category.
1.3 jufi 22: <p> "Technology" "required" for the "development", "production" or "use" of a product under embargo remains under embargo even when applicable to any unembargoed product.
23: <p> Controls do not apply to that "technology" which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, maintenance, (checking) and repair of those products which are unembargoed or whose export has been authorised.<br>
1.6 david 24: <b> N.B.</b><br>
1.1 deraadt 25: This does not release the repair "technology" embargoed by Category 1085.2.a Controls do not apply to "technology" "in the public domain" or to "basic scientific research".
1.6 david 26: <a name=exempt><p><b>General "Software" Note</b></a><br>
1.1 deraadt 27: This List does not embargo "software" which is either"<br>
1.6 david 28: <ol type=a>
29: <li> Generally available to the public by being:
30: <ol>
31: <li> Sold from stock at retail selling points, without restriction, by means of:
32: <ol type=a>
33: <li> Over-the-Counter transactions;
34: <li> Mail order transactions; <b>or</b>
35: <li> Telephone call transactions; <b>and</b>
36: </ol>
37: <li> Designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier; <b> or</b>
38: </ol>
39: <li> In the public domain".
40: </ol>
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1.6 david 46: <h2> From the definitions of pp 49-55</h2>
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1.6 david 48: <dl><dt>"In the public domain"
49: <dd>As it applies to the International Lists, means "technology" or "software" which has been made available without restrictions upon its further dissemination.<br>
1.1 deraadt 50: <b> N.B.</b><br>
51: <i>Copyright restrictions do not remove "technology" or "software" from being "in the public domain".</i>
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1.6 david 53: <dt> "Software"
54: <dd>A collection of one or more "programmes" or "microprogrammes" fixed in any tangible medium of expression.
55: <dt> "Technology"
56: <dd>Specific information necessary for the "development", "production"
1.1 deraadt 57: or "use" of a product. The information takes the form of "technical data"
58: or "technical assistance". Embargoed "technology" is defined in the
59: General Technology Note and in the International Industrial List.<br>
60: <b>N.B.</b><br>
1.6 david 61: <ol><li> "Technical data" may take forms such as blueprints, plans, diagrams, models, formulae, tables, engineering designs and specifications, manuals and instructions written or recorded on other media or devices such as disk, tape, read-only memories.
62: <li> "Technical assistance" may take forms such as instruction, skills, training, working knowledge, consulting services. "Technical assistance" may involve transfer of "technical data".
63: </ol>
64: </dl>
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66: <a name=1150><h2> 1150. Information Security</h2></a>
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68: <p> <b> Note:</b><br>
69: The embargo status of "information security" equipment, "software". systems.
70: application specific "assemblies", modules, integrated circuits, components or
71: functions is defined in this Category even if they are components or "assemblies"
72: of other equipment.
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1.6 david 74: <h3> 1151. Equipment, Assemblies and Components</h3>
1.1 deraadt 75:
76: <p> Systems, equipment, application specific "assemblies", modules or integrated circuits
77: for "information security", as follows, and other specially designed components
78: therefor:
1.6 david 79: <ol type=a>
80: <li> Designed or modified to use "cryptography" employing digital techniques
1.1 deraadt 81: ensure "information security";
1.6 david 82: <li> Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions;
83: <li> Designed or modified to use "cryptography" employing analogue techniques to
1.1 deraadt 84: ensure "information security", except:
1.6 david 85: <ol>
86: <li> Equipment using "fixed" band scrambling not exceeding 8 bands and in
1.1 deraadt 87: which the transpositions change not more frequently than once every
88: second;
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1.6 david 90: <li> Equipment using "fixed" band scrambling exceeding 8 bands and in which
1.1 deraadt 91: the transpositions change not more frequently than once every ten
92: seconds;
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1.6 david 94: <li> Equipment using "fixed" frequency inversion and in which the
1.1 deraadt 95: transpositions change not more frequently than once every second;
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1.6 david 97: <li> Facsimile equipment;
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1.6 david 99: <li> Restricted audience broadcast equipment;
100: <li> Civil television equipment;
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102: <li> Designed or modified to suppress the compromising emanations of
1.1 deraadt 103: information-bearing signals;<br>
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1.6 david 105: <b>Note:</b><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: 1151.d. does not embargo equipment specially designed to suppress
107: emanations for health or safety reasons.
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1.6 david 109: <li> Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate the spreading
1.1 deraadt 110: code for "spread spectrum" or the hopping code for "frequency agility" systems;
1.6 david 111: <li> Designed or modified to provide certified or certifiable "multilevel security" or
1.1 deraadt 112: user isolation at a level exceeding Class B2 of the Trusted Computer System
113: Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) or equivalent;
1.6 david 114: <li> Communications cable systems designed or modified using mechanical,
1.1 deraadt 115: electrical or electronic means to detect surreptitious intrusion.
1.6 david 116: </ol><br>
1.1 deraadt 117:
1.6 david 118: <b>Note:</b><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: 1151.d. does not embargo:
1.6 david 120: <ol type=a>
121: <li> "Personalized smart cards" using "cryptography";
1.1 deraadt 122:
1.6 david 123: <li> Equipment containing "fixed" data compression or coding techniques;
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1.6 david 125: <li> Receiving equipment for radio broadcast, pay television or similar restricted
1.1 deraadt 126: audience television of the consumer type, without digital encryption and where
127: digital decryption is limited to the video, audio or management functions;
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1.6 david 129: <li> Portable (personal) or mobile radiotelephones for civil use, e.g. for use with
1.1 deraadt 130: commercial civil cellular radiocommunications systems, containing encryption,
131: when accompanying their users;
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1.6 david 133: <li> Decryption functions specially designed to allow the execution of copy-protected
1.1 deraadt 134: "software", provided the decryption functions are not user-accessible.
1.6 david 135: </ol>
1.1 deraadt 136:
1.6 david 137: <p><h3>1152. Test, Inspection and Production Equipment</h3>
1.1 deraadt 138:
1.6 david 139: <ol type=a><li> Equipment specially designed for:
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1.1 deraadt 141:
1.6 david 142: <li> The development of equipment or tunctions embargoed by 1151., 1152.,
1.1 deraadt 143:
144: 1154. or 1155., including measuring or test equipment;
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1.6 david 146: <li>The production of equipment or functions embargoed by 1151., 1152.,
1.1 deraadt 147:
148: 1154. or 1155., including measuring, test, repair or production equipment;
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1.6 david 150: </ol>
151: <li> Measuring equipment specially designed to evaluate and validate the
1.1 deraadt 152: "information security" functions embargoed by 1 151. or 1 154.
1.6 david 153: </ol>
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1.6 david 157: <h3>1153. Materials</h3>
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1.6 david 161: <p><h3>1154. Software</h3>
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1.6 david 165: <ol type=a>
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1.6 david 167: <li type=a> "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production"
1.1 deraadt 168: or "use" of equipment or "software" embargoed by 1151., 1 152. or 1154.;
1.6 david 169: <li> "Software" specially designed or modified to support technology embargoed by
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1.6 david 173: <li> Specific "software" as follows:
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1.6 david 176: <li> "Software" having the characteristics, or performing or simulating the
1.1 deraadt 177: functions of the equipment embargoed by 1151. or 1152.;
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1.6 david 179: <li> "Software" to certify "software" embargoed by 1154.c.1 .;
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1.6 david 181: <li> "Software" designed or modified to protect against malicious computer
1.1 deraadt 182: damage, e.g. viruses.
1.6 david 183: </ol>
184: </ol>
1.1 deraadt 185:
1.6 david 186: <b>Note:</b><br>
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188: 1154. does not embargo:
1.6 david 189: <ol type=a>
190: <li> "Software" required for the "use" of equipment excluded from embargo under
1.1 deraadt 191: the Note to 1151.;
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1.6 david 193: <li> "Software" providing any of the functions of equipment excluded from embargo
1.1 deraadt 194: under the Note to 1151.
1.6 david 195: </ol>
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1.6 david 197: <p> <h3> 1155. Technology</h3><br>
1.1 deraadt 198: Technology according to the General Technology Note for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment or "software" embargoed by 1151., 1152.
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210: <h2><a name=US>Group 5- Miscellaneous Goods</a></h2>
1.1 deraadt 211: <center> .<br>.<br>.<br></center>
1.6 david 212: <h3> United States Origin Goods</h3>
1.1 deraadt 213: <p><b>
214: 5400. All goods that originate in the United States, unless they are
215: included elsewhere in this List, whether in bond or cleared by
216: Canadian Customs, other than goods that have been further
217: processed or manufactured outside the United States so as to
218: result in a substantial change in value, form or use of the
219: goods or in the production of new goods.
220: </b><br>
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223: <p> With respect to this section, an introductory note in the Forward to the Guide states:
1.6 david 224: <ul>
225: <h3> Re-export of United States Origin Goods</h3>
1.1 deraadt 226: United States origin goods are controlled for re-export from Canada under
227: Item 5400 of Group . Although this means that all non-strategic
228: U.S. origin goods require an export permit, exporters may benefit,
1.3 jufi 229: in most cases, from the provisions of General Export Permit No. Ex. 12
1.1 deraadt 230: Canadian exporters of U.S. origin goods should be aware that depending
231: upon the nature of the goods and the country of destination, exporters
232: may be required to provide a copy of a U.S. export license or
233: verification that such goods may be exported to the specified country
234: without the U.S. license, prior to issuance of a Canadian export permit.
235: Contact the Export Controls Division for more information.
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1.6 david 237: </ul>
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239: Transcribed from the <b>Canada's Export Controls</b> Guide by
1.1 deraadt 240: <a href=mailto:unruh@physics.ubc.ca>W. G. Unruh</a>
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