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From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: DES export regulations.  And what to do about it!
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Date: 2 Jan 91 17:03:59 GMT
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In article <18874@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>not secret - there is nothing to prevent Saddam Hussein from reading
>the appropriate Federal Register sections or FIPS PUB 46.

True, but then there's nothing to keep him from reading
Nobel and Einstein, so let's just sell him giant, ballistic
guns and nuclear warheads...

...i.e., there's something to be said for prohibiting the
export of sensitive technologies, regardless of the availability
of related scientific information.

				--Blair
				  "Knowledge is not implementation."