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From: perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Export restriction removed (?)
Keywords: free DES, Kerberos export
Message-ID: <1990Jul29.094555.24214@kth.se>
Date: 29 Jul 90 09:45:55 GMT
References: <43108@cornell.UUCP> <2495@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <2912@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <3328@ifi.uio.no>
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In article <3328@ifi.uio.no> edmbv@fiol.UiB.NO (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes:
>As I'm sure you are aware of are there DES implementations done outside
>the US (I've played with the Finnish one, works nicely) and therefore free
>of any export restrictions.

Not completely true. As has been said before, if it enters the US you are
not allowed to distribute out of there. So Project Athena could't offer a
complete package for export anyway. They could of course use the finnish DES,
remove the DES source, and say "- It is there, in Finland. Go get it".

Per
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Per Andersson
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