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From: chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 7 Jul 1994 14:35:39 +1000
Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC
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jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) writes:


>jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi):
>jhi>Is anyone going to prepare an international version of 4.4-lite?
>jhi>The one with the naughty bits doing naughty encryption things cut off?

>Jinwoo Shin <jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu>:
>js> I think I remember reading somewhere in FreeBSD/386BSD faq that there
>js> was an alternative encryption source code written in Australia.
>js> Look for the faqs.

>The problem is not getting the DES code, there are many outside-US
>implementations to choose from, as in any encryption stuff.
>In fact, I am sitting about 6m away from one of them, in
>ftp://kampi.hut.fi/alo :-)  The problem is in the idiotic
>regulations that make anyone ftping (transferring, no matter how)
>encryption code out of US a foul villain.  Therefore if we are to
>go by the book, someone in the US should always dissect the evil
>encryption code away from the "domestic" version and thus prepare
>the "international" version.  The same applies to X11R6, Kerberos
>on its own, you name it.

Surely the answer is to have the encryption stuff written outside the US
and then combine them to form one US/international release?