From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 16:23:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA03497 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03474 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA21978 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 25 Jan 1996 01:23:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199601250023.AA21978@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 01:23:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Frank "Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD" (Jan 24, 18:55) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Frank Subject: Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 24, 18:55, Frank wrote: } Subject: Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD } > } You will note from the header that Mr Morini is in Italy. You may also } > } note that DES is not exportable outside the US. } > } > And you might try to imagine, just for a moment, } > that he doesn't have to EXPORT it from the US, in } > order to IMPORT it to Italy ... } > } > Thanks, I KNEW you could do it, if you only tried! } DES is STILL subject to US export restrictions. Well, seems I was wrong, you could not imagine he was importing it, without any need to have it be exported from the US for that purpose ... Sorry ... Now, we'll try again, slowly: Try to imagine, that by some wonderful inspiration some person outside the US managed to write code, that looks like DES, talks like DES, walks like DES. You got the picture ? And now he gives this code to somebody else outside the US, without it ever going through the US. You can imagine that ? This might help you understand why the people working on the security and encryption code in FreeBSD have mail adresses ending in ".za" and ".au" and why the host "ftp.internat.freebsd.org" is located in South Africa ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se