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Subject: Re: X11R3 security hole needs attention
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Date: 21 Mar 89 18:48:03 GMT
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>> (And then, there's this problem with distributing
>> cryptographic stuff outside the US ...)

>Not really.  The "problem" is that the folks in the Reagan-now-Bush
>administration ... foolishly think that
>the U.S. Government can stop the spread of cryptographic technology

Reagan didn't invent this problem.  There were other fools aplenty
before him.  Also, don't think the only technology impacted is
cryptography.

>soon, somebody outside the U.S. (frequently an Australian) will post
>public-domain software which achieves the same effect;  we then pick it
>up in the U.S. and everybody is happy.

Or a Canadian.  But don't think that just because it's PD and you got
it from abroad that you can distribute it abroad.  The export cops are
simply not rational and are bigger than you are.  Please be careful.

--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa
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