Are medical devices using crypto specified by Category 5 Part 2?
No. Items specially designed for medical end-use are exempt from Group 1 and Group 2 of the Canadian Export Control List (ECL) as part of a Statement of Understanding (SOU) agreed to by the Wassenaar Arrangement. 9. We provide a general purpose processing card which happens to use a processing chip that has hardware crypto accelerators. However, our processing card does not make any use of the encryption functionality of this chip. Would our processing card be captured by Category 5 Part 2 even though it does not use any cryptographic functionality embedded in one of its chips? Yes. Although the processing card does not use crypto, the card is considered specially designed to use crypto and would need to be evaluated against Category 5 Part 2. 10. We are producers of enterprise networking applications and we offer a free software application that provides additional functionality, including encryption, to those that they have already purchased from us. This free add-on software is down
