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From: d87-mal@mumrik.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US??
In-Reply-To: peter@NeoSoft.com's message of Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:49:24 GMT
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 11:16:36 GMT
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In article <CC40yC.JGq@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
In article <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
> Since FreeBSD claims to tolerate GNU code, the moment should have been come to
> throw out that stupid "restricted" BNR/2 crypt and place the GNU-crypt
> lookalike in, otherwise we are going to have US and "rest-of-the-world"
> releases forever.
It uses a non-DES algorithm?
Isn't it the US export regulations that is the problem here? If so it
doesn't matter what algorithm it uses; as long as it is useful it will
not be legal to export it from the US. This applies to FreeBSD also:
if it includes a useful crypt algorithm, it can't be exported. The only
way around this I know of is to have it developed (at least the crypt
part) and put together outside of the US. Then anyone can use it, as
it seems to be ok to _import_ crypt stuff to the US...
I might very well be wrong on this, but I think the GNU-crypt uses
the same DES as everybody else, but is developed and available
outside the US (Denmark?).
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Mats Lofkvist
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