Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:06:07 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. Message-ID: <199506192006.WAA00130@grumble.grondar.za>
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> The US State Department wants to spread as much Fear, Uncertainty, and
> Doubt about software exportability as possible, in the hope that it
> will discourage people from attempting to export even legal software
> (or software for which a license can be easily obtained, the category
> I believe libdescrypt.so to fall into). They and the NSA have their
> own unstated mission to outlaw private encryption entirely, in which
> the current administration is all too eager to help.
Bastards. How do we go about licensing libdescrypt, or will that just
attract the wrong kind of attention?
\begin{rave}
You want to know how ridiculous this law is? There is a T-shirt with
some crypto algorithm in Perl on it. To export these from the US is
Gun-Running. They are printed and freely available in Britain. They are
illegal for possession in France. A textbook on numerical algorithms
which is printed in the US has a discussion and description (and some
code) on DES is exportable. What's the problem???
\end{rave}
Sigh.
M
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