Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Encryption source? Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 23:24:18 GMT References: <4217@polari.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 32 In-reply-to: gcs@polari.UUCP's message of 25 May 91 14:24:58 GMT Greg> Looking for sources for unix programs to encrypt text files (something Greg> which would require a key to decrypt). I have (several) such programs, using either the DES or UNIX crypt algorithm. Furthermore, I know of at least one FTP site that have such programs. BUT, you cannot have these programs. In it's wisdom, your government has decided that such programs are a threat to your national security and therefore must not be traded between a person in the U.S.A. and a person outside the U.S.A. These programs are easy to implement, as the algorithms are Public Domain and not under any export restrictions. It is only the software implementations that are not allowed. This is why these programs are readily available all over the world. SO: I have this program, but since the US government feel that it would be a threat to it's security to have anyone outside the US have it, I am not allowed to send it to you, since you are inside the US and I am outside. I can, on the other hand, freely send it to anyone NOT in the US, including a person in the USSR. You might like to discuss this with your congressman (or whatever you call it). (In case you are asking yourself: WHY?, the answer is: "technical trade restriction". Look it up). /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | these things. -- Calvin