Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!emory!Dixie.Com!eeh From: eeh@Dixie.Com (Ed Howland) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Encryption source? Message-ID: <20170@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> Date: 30 May 91 03:53:16 GMT References: <4217@polari.UUCP> Organization: Dixie Communications, The South's First Commercial Public Access Unix Lines: 31 fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: >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. Question: If one were to implement a program using one of these DES schemes, and then compile the code, and use the resulting binary (presumably, harder to reverse-engineer) in a system that was then exported to say, Canada, would one be in violation? If one had say, Unix SYSVR4 loaded on his T5100 laptop and were to fly to Alaska with a layover in Vancouver, and lost his luggage enroute, would one be in violation? Just wondering. Ed Howland eeh@dixie.com ..[emory,uunet]!rsiatl!eeh