Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!media-lab!mit.edu!henry From: henry@mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos Subject: Re: Export restriction removed (?) Message-ID: <2912@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 90 20:16:22 GMT References: <43108@cornell.UUCP> <2495@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Sender: news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: henry@mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Distribution: comp Organization: MIT Project Athena External Relations Lines: 29 In article <2495@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes: |> Has there been any changes in the distribution restrictions on |> Kerberos? Ken Birman's message on comp.sys.isis suggests that |> things are changing and the computing press has much talk about |> COCOM rules going away... the DES export restriction doesn't seem to have any thing to do with COCOM restrictions (we don't export DES to our 'friends' either ... not even canadians!) i do know that digital equipment corporation is shipping kerberos with its ULTRIX 4.0 software, and they are exporting a fully-operation kerberos to sites outside the US. i'm inclined to discount comments of the sort you included in your article because those remarks amount to is "a friend of a friend of a friend who claims to be an expert says it's doable, but none of us know how." it is also important for us to remember that MIT and Project Athena's primary business is not the export of software, so we don't have the fleet of expensive lawyers to pursue these issues. you can be sure that when we have word that kerberos can be freely exported, we will let you in on the news. # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / /