Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!info-law From: willis@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (Willis Ware) Newsgroups: mod.legal Subject: Re: DES Message-ID: <8603070131.AA18681@rand-unix.ARPA> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 20:31:18 EST Article-I.D.: rand-uni.8603070131.AA18681 Posted: Thu Mar 6 20:31:18 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 03:46:05 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 7 Approved: info-law@brl.arpa I imagine that you would find that the algorithm question per se is irrelevant. The export restrictions would be applied to the devices (i.e., equipments) that contain the DES algorithm, or possibly to chips which contained the DES algorithm. willis h. ware