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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function/crypt() outside USA
Keywords: crypt unix NSA export
Message-ID: <10954@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 11 Oct 89 06:21:13 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <164@spam.ua.oz> <750@imuse.uucp>
Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In his last known posting to Usenet, ed@imuse.uucp (Ed Braaten) wrote:

>Funny thing!  The SCO Xenix machine I play on at home has the crypt()
>facility on it, and I live in Dachau, (West) Germany.  How did it get 
>here?  I bought my Xenix in the US while back home on vacation,
>installed it on my portable, and then lugged the portable back
>with me here to Germany...
>Now for a question to my fellow Americans on the net:  What should I
>do with my (???illegally???) exported crypt() routines?  Is my computer a
>threat to National Security?  

The court has not yet ruled whether a posted confession to Usenet
is as binding as a signed statement to police.  However, when this
information was obtained by the Insecure National Agency, they seized
Mr. Braaten's machine and found bits of hard evidence on his disk.
Usenet (despite periodic predictions to the contrary) will still be
around in 30 years when Mr. Braaten gets out of the slammer.  However,
his machine will not be able to keep up with upgraded communications
protocols, and alas, we will never hear from him again.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work)
  The above opinions are inherited by your machine's init process (pid 1),
  after being disowned and orphaned.  However, if you see this at Waterloo or
  Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.