Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!umix!rutgers!orstcs!ruffwork
From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: distribution of sensitive software like DES
Message-ID: <2962@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 88 17:26:52 GMT
References: <8801281211.AA13780@decwrl.dec.com> <2275@geac.UUCP> <4106@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis, Oregon
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After reading the DEC statement, I see a "simple" way around it:
(wait a minute while I open my mouth wide enough for my foot ;-)
public domain can't be had unless it printed, it seems?  Why doesn't
someone start a mag. (good use for that Mac on your desk and the laserwriter
down the hall) that is non-profit and call it "DES hackers!".
Register yourself with yourself as a non-profit org (easy to do), then
we just print the sources for the "public domain" DES in it and
sell it for cost to whoever wants it.  It's in print now, generally
available, etc. so it's now legally in the public domain, so the
other set of rules apply, etc, etc,...

--ritchey ruff	ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!hp-pcd!orstcs!ruffwork