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From: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.politics
Subject: Re: Censorship on the net
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 14:07:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 14:07:33 1986
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We are the UK <-> world feed, and we certainly don't censor anything.
The normal reason for dropping a group is cost. Each UK site pays
about $54 a month for news, and for a lot of sites this causes problem
with accountants.

The quickest way for a UK site to get the DES crypt code, if they have
a source license, is to approach an old site who have pre-embargo copy
of Unix.
This is perfectly legal since the license DES crypt was issued on is way
below System 5.n (my V6 manual thinks it had DES crypt). Source licensed
sites are allowed to exchange code provided the code given is from a
prior release to the level of the recipients license.

This means that it is rather late to start worrying about DES leaking
out with Unix now. Why don't the DOD or whoever stop messing around
and remove the embargo from the DES crypt, and while they are at it
they could release BSD4.3 from embargo as well.

Climbs off soapbox, but it's something I feel very strongly about.

	sean

	sjl@ukc.ac.uk
	sjl@ukc.uucp