Section 2804 refers to products manufactured and used in the US. But section 2803 is pretty clear:
"New section 2803 will make it unlawful after January 31, 2000, to sell in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not provide duly authorized persons an immediate access to plaintext capability, or immediate decryption capability."
and
"Sec. 2803. Unlawful sale of encryption
Whoever, after January 31, 2000, sells in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not include features or functions permitting duly authorized persons immediate access to plaintext or immediate decryption capabilities shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined under this title, or both."
I don't know what this document is, or what it's relevance is, but that was my reading.
The document seemed to be a report (suggestion) to alter the SAFE Act to include those provisions.
The GPO link I shared doesn't list those recommendations so it looked like they didn't make it in to the final draft. So I'm not sure what the purpose of the original linked document is either.I've edited my original comment to make it clear since it was ambiguous as to what I may have been "reading wrong".
Ah I see. Thanks! I guess one take away from this document is that there have been attempts to limit the availability of encryption for at least 20 years. But I think that's relatively well known.
This might be a bit of a stretch, but if you were to send in plain text just something meta-ish like datetime and the actual message would be sent as image for example, could we get around this?
E.g. when your-favorite-three-letter-agency comes asking for decryption you just decrypt the plaintext portion for them?
"New section 2803 will make it unlawful after January 31, 2000, to sell in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not provide duly authorized persons an immediate access to plaintext capability, or immediate decryption capability."
and
"Sec. 2803. Unlawful sale of encryption
Whoever, after January 31, 2000, sells in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not include features or functions permitting duly authorized persons immediate access to plaintext or immediate decryption capabilities shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined under this title, or both."
I don't know what this document is, or what it's relevance is, but that was my reading.