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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re:  UUCP to RUSSIA
Message-ID: <276@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 15:14:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 15:14:39 1987
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In article <8710222017.AA01466@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>Many people write "freeware" or "shareware" these days that is given 
>away freely.  Since it's not commerce to not-sell
>something, commercial export bans really can't apply.  (Can they?  I'm
>not a lawyer, but this seems to fit into a legal nicety.)  What will
>the government do when some 7-year-old hacker writes a DES system and
>puts it on a free BBS?

Ah, but this already *has* been done -- the source code to a DES
implementation in software was recently posted.  We have a copy here.  I
have not yet checked to see if it calls the unix encryption routines itself,
or does the encryption entirely in the code.

I'm sure there's *some* law on the books *somewhere* to stop this kind of
idea (the linkage), there always seems to be one when the politicos don't
find the 'risks' from such a venture acceptable.

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