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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!ucsvax!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!xlink.net!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!colin.muc.de!isar.muc.de!alanya!lupe Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Message-ID: <1993Aug23.214550.2910@alanya.isar.muc.de> From: lupe@alanya.isar.muc.de (Lupe Christoph) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 21:45:50 GMT References: <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> <258qov$i3e@landin.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1993Aug23.083546.5676@gmd.de> <25aru3$cdv@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: cic Lines: 22 mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >According to my reading, this makes it illegal to import or export the >algorithm for Ceasers Cipher... This also makes it illegal to export/import offensive jokes, because they are normally posted in rot13 format which constitutes an encryption, not being plainly readable. But I believe there are more precise definitions of what may or may not be exported or we would not even have encrypted passwords outside the US. Must be something like encryption for authentication is OK, but programs that encrypt data are export controlled. The DoD was fortunate to leave algorithm out, because most cryptographic algorithms were developed outside the USA, e.g. RSA was developed in the (then) USSR. -- | lupe@alanya.isar.muc.de (private, German IN) | Disclaimer: | | ...!unido!ukw!lupe (company, German EUNet) | This is an unofficial | | suninfo!alanya!lupe (via Sun Germany) | opinion of Christoph & | | Joseph Weizenbaum is an AI program. | Imschweiler Consulting |