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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: DES
Message-ID: <1537@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 17:02:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 17:02:33 1986
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In article <1590@brl-smoke.ARPA> hyatt@dewey.udel.edu (Glenn Hyatt) writes:
>The Defense Department (apparently in the interest of the NSA) argued
>that DES is a militarily-useful "item" and as such is subject to
>export restrcition.  This is ludicrous on the face of it, but it
>raised a couple of copyright questions on my mind:

  Not long ago, I bought an HP 141 oscilloscope military surplus.  Although
the machine was last calibrated in 1961 (it is a 22 MHz scope that weighs
over 200 lbs), it was on a 'military supplies list', and I was required to
sign a form stating that I would not export it, or sell it to any firm 
engaged in exporting equipment outside the country (etc...).  First of all,
this just shows you the government's reliability in determining what is 
truly militarily useful, and also how crude the restrictions are.  Not that
a restriction on DES could ever be enforced, anyway.
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