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From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Message-ID: <662@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 27 Sep 90 13:04:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.182109.8317@kth.se>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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> said -'Oh, you wan't to help us to retrieve the tapes?'. Apart from that there
> are many many DES implementations not written in the US, and therefore not 
> restricted. Check out the one which was distributed in comp.sources.something,
> it was carefully set up not to pass the US, which is illegal, but sent both
> from Australia and Finland I think. Such rubbish.

And don't forget the implementation (in PASCAL) of DES in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's
book 'Computer Networks'! 

Would it be allowed to bring a copy of it into the States and then back out
again? I don't think so. Everyone seems to have it, but it is not allowed
to transport it via the USA.

I wonder - how much paperwork is done in vain for this silly DES rule? 
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