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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: converting tail patches to head patches...
Message-ID: <9192@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 89 07:27:32 GMT
References: <63359@tiger.oxy.edu> <9099@hoptoad.uucp> <1989Dec1.140641.13414@cs.umu.se>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <9099@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
> . . . . . . . . . .  People shouldn't limit the distribution to usa
>unless there's some pressing reason to do so, like distributing the
>Mac source to a DES encrypter or something.

In article <1989Dec1.140641.13414@cs.umu.se> christer@cs.umu.se (Christer
Ericson) writes:
>And why should someone want to limit the distribution of a DES encryptor? 
>If someone wants to know about DES all they have to do is look it up in
>just about any serious computer journal. Afraid of commies are we?

I *am* a commie, you silly person.  I'm considerably more afraid of
the NSA.  There are export restrictions on decrypting software, and
they are taken pretty seriously.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Starting in a hollowed log of wood -- some thousand miles up a river, with an
 infinitesimal prospect of returning!  I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo
 is 'damned fool! ... the Devil drives!"
	-- Sir Richard Francis Burton in correspondence to Monckton Miles, 1863