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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Security for UNIX ... looking for crypt() ...
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Date: 26 Jun 90 15:09:53 GMT
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In <13224@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|In article <25087@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
|>Apparently, no one may ship any DES code out of the US, even if the
|>code was obtained from outside the US in the first place.
|
|Sure you can, but you have to get an export license first.
|Export licenses will be issued upon request for products containing
|DES, although only on a unit item basis (i.e. not a blanket license).
|
|The folks enforcing the laws cannot reasonably be blamed for the
|stupidity of the laws.

Unfortunately, they are not laws, but regulations.

It's usually easier to get laws changed.

	/rich $alz, who once tried to legally export DES after a
	minor mistake in what used to be called mod.sources
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