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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: distribution of sensitive software like DES
Message-ID: <7316@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 22 Feb 88 12:43:35 GMT
References: <8801281211.AA13780@decwrl.dec.com> <2275@geac.UUCP> <4106@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4106@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I still think we have a free country ...

I don't know how you got that impression.

>The point is that information which is freely available to anyone in
>the US can be exported.

That's just what the DEC lawyers were telling you isn't so.  There is
an injunction against export of "defense materials", even if they are
found growing on trees.