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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DES (crypt) vs. the FTC
Summary: Can't Touch This
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Date: 22 Mar 91 00:33:51 GMT
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mwarren@rws1.ma30.bull.com (Mark Warren) writes:
|My current belief is that there is no longer any restriction, from the US
|government, concerning shipping the DES algorithm overseas.  Can anyone
|provide an *AUTHORITIVE* confirmation on this?
|
|It used to be that international Unix distributions had crypt and setkey()
|removed.

It is *STILL* U.S. law that DES function cannot be shipped out of the
United States without explicit Commerce Department approval.

I know it's silly, but it is the Law.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, but I get advised by them frequently.
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