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From: phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington)
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Subject: Re: password encoding
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Date: 7 Jun 91 08:30:43 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.113438.7450@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>
>No. Unix is using a modified DES-Algorithm, which has (as far as we
>know :-) not yet been broken. Minix cannot use this algorithm, because
>there is a law in the US that forbids exporting the algorithm. So if
>Andy writes crypt in the Netherlands, sends it to PH in the US and they
>copy it there, the Minix disks may not be exported anymore:-(

     You've got to be joking. If crypt is written in the Netherlands, or
any other place outside of the US then that is where it's copyright will be
registered, unless P-H grab it and keep it in the US. Assuming the
copyright is registered outside of the US, if P-H then use the code in a MINIX
release and export the discs to Europe all they are doing is distributing a
European copyrighted program in Europe. Surely a US court can't prevent
them doing that. Then again the US legal system appears to get even more
stupid than usual when DES is mentioned.

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