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From: royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Message-ID: <25384@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 89 01:28:59 GMT
References: <1093@gara.une.oz> <14213@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz>
Reply-To: royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle)
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In article <14213@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> nick@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz (Nick Andrew) writes:
>in article <1093@gara.une.oz>, wtoomey@gara.une.oz (Warren Toomey) says:
>
>	I think the DES-compatible crypt was removed with 1.3, or
>thereabouts. Nobody has as yet been able to tell me why.
>
>> Is it legal? Is Andy's source copyright? Who has the answers?
>
>	John Gilmore.
>
>Regards, Nick.
>-- 

It is illegal to export DES, but importation is legal.

Also in another weird legal twist.  If you were to write DES encryption
routines, and you were to put them out for anonymous ftp and someone
from outside the USA ftp'ed them that would be ok.

The Kerebos people had MIT had to deal with this.

Gosh glad we got the NSA to protect us, kinda makes you feal all warm
inside