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From: ronnie@mindcraft.com (Ronnie Kon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: DES export regulations.  And what to do about it!
Message-ID: <662879816.6113@mindcraft.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 05:16:53 GMT
References: <14475@hoptoad.uucp> <18874@rpp386.cactus.org> <1548@inews.intel.com> <1991Jan02.202703.8608@decuac.dec.com>
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In article <1991Jan02.202703.8608@decuac.dec.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>...i.e., there's something to be said for prohibiting the
>export of sensitive technologies, regardless of the availability
>of related scientific information.

	Gee, I'm sure glad the Ruskies have never thought of sending a student
to UC Berkeley to get them a copy of the crypt() function (which implements
DES encryption).  Thank God for the US Commerce department.

	:-)

				Ronnie
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