What is the Export Classification Number (ECCN) for Win32Disk Imager
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- Tobin Davis
What is the Export Classification Number (ECCN) of Win32 Disk Imager?
Simple answer - there isn't one.
Until we are told otherwise, this program does not require an ECCN, as it is free open source software. It does not do any encryption/
The main function of this program is to read/write raw data on removable devices (USB Memory, SD/CF cards, etc). If the data is encrypted already, this program will have no effect on it. Like taking a document and making a copy on a photocopier. If the document is encrypted, the copy will be also.
Here is a more appropriate comment in legal-speak (from MD5.README):
"... MD-5, N-HASH, and SHS are 'hashing routines' that perform
a data authentication function and, by themselves, are not
controlled for export under the ITAR because cryptographic software
that is solely limited to a data authentication function is excluded
from Category XIII(b) of the United States Munitions List.
See 22 C.F.R. Section 121.1 XIII(b)(vi)."
Source: Karn v. US Department of State,
"JOINT STATEMENT OF FACTS NOT IN DISPUTE",
Civ. A. No. 95-1812(CRR), US District Court for the District of Columbia.