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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Encryption
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Date: 23 Aug 88 06:38:37 GMT
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:I just thought I'd add a note about the gov't suppressing nifty encryption
:algorithms that I found amusing/sad.
:
:The data encryptor included with DataFrame hard drives distributed in the U.S.
:uses one such fancy encryption technique; therefore, the U.S. Gov't has for-
:bidden them to distribute it overseas.  This was the answer my Dutch friend
:finally traced down, after much ado, about why that program was not included
:in the package he got.

	There has got to be something more to it than that.  For instance,
DataFrame might not have invented the cryptography algorithm they were
marketting and the copyright/patent got in the way.  Other for instances 
include 'sensitive' hardware.  However, any reasonably smart 10th grader
could write up the DES or an enhanced DES in a day or two.

:Somewhat laughable, I think, given the ease of e-mail or a disk in the mail...

	Very easy... I do it all the time.  9 out of 10 times the post office
doesn't even want a customs stamp on it, and even when they do, it just means
the package will not (usually) be openned.

					-Matt