From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 29 12:05:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA03231 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 12:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03153 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 12:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21458; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:05:21 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199609291905.VAA21458@grumble.grondar.za> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgcc port Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:05:21 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk wrote: > According to Pedro Giffuni: > > They adopted it from the start, they are also distributing DES from > > Canada to avoid legal problems. > > Distributing DES from Canada doesn't solve anything as they have the same > restrictions as the US. Not _quite_ so. It is legal to export crypto from USA to Canada, but this code is then ITAR "tainted" and cannot be re-exported. If the code is "untainted", (IE does not come from USA,) it is freely exportable. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key