From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 30 10:39:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12878 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12812 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v7mJ4-0008ywC; Mon, 30 Sep 96 10:39 PDT Received: (from pgiffuni@localhost) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA09441; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:07:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:07:15 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro Giffuni To: Mark Murray cc: Ollivier Robert , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgcc port In-Reply-To: <199609291905.VAA21458@grumble.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Mark Murray wrote: > 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. > Mark: in the document referred from www.openbsd.org, someone actually could export U.S. DES (11% US), and reported he could get a permit for distributing Kerberos V, based on the Public Domain license. It seems like US laws are a mess and don't apply completely to Canada. In any case bones (Kerberos without encription) can be exported freely from US. US restrictions are ridiculous and will fall some day (even pornography restrictions falled), but meanwhile Canada may be a twilight zone. Pedro. > 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 >