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From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Why no encryption in Compact Pro int'l?
Message-ID: <4773@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 12:14:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In an article, Thomas Okken <thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl> writes:

>[stuff deleted] In the release notes I read that the
>password encryption feature has been disabled in the
>international version, and this brought back a memory of a
>friend recently telling me that this was also the case in
>PC-land with PKZIP. All of this seems due to some (new?)
>U.S. export law. Could anyone enlighten me as to what this
>new law might be? And what purpose it is expected to serve?
>[stuff deleted] Thanks!

It has been illegal for many years, (since DES encryption was invented, in
fact, :-)  ) to ship programs incorporating the DES encryption scheme outside
the United States.  Canada enjoys a special status here -- we are not
considered to be "out of the United States" I guess. ;->  Most license
agreeemnets on packages with the DES encryption included (most?  ALL!) include
a provision that you agree not to export the DES sections without specific
written approval from the owners and the US government.
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