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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: DES encryption
Message-ID: <1991May1.054244.29821@uwasa.fi>
Date: 1 May 91 05:42:44 GMT
References: <26707@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <26707@adm.brl.mil> buckland%cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Tony Buckland) writes:
>>In article <91115.18385400156811@ysub.ysu.edu> 00156811@ysub.ysu.edu writes:
:
>> Please note that this group extends beyond U.S. boundaries, so
>> any followup should be governed by U.S. regulations on export of
>> encryption methods.
>
>What is this all about. Are encryption routines controlled by government
>in the United States of 'Great' America ???? I thougt it was a free country.
>I'm glad to live in Belgium then !!!!

It is about legislation living in a world apart from today's
realities of international communication.  Just unrealistic remnants
of a nation state with respect to the free flow of information. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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