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From: Igor Sobrado Delgado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
Subject: Re: k95crypt.dll
Date: 2 Sep 2000 11:09:28 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Oviedo
Message-ID: <8oqn58$k5d$2@news01.si.uniovi.es>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Export restrictions in the U.S. have not been dropped.
> They have been relaxed for source code only releases but all
> binaries are still restricted. When we are able to export
> the encryption features of K95 it will be announced on this
> web site.
Right, restrictions have only been relaxed. Now it is legal to
export strong cryptosystems to other countries (as example symmetric
ciphers with 128-bit length public-keys instead of 56-bit keys).
I think it is not only allow to source code products.
Encryption software was considered as a weapon some time ago (now it
is too but with a less restrictive export controls). In this
sense only printed copies of source code was exported out of the
United States (as example, Phillip Zimmermann exported PGP source
code this way to the north of Europe where it was scanned and
recompiled to make PGPi). That was possible because the printed
item was a book, not software.
Now it is possible to get source code with strong encryption-schemes
implemented (sendmail 8.11.0) or binaries (Netscape Communicator with
U.S. encryption) legally.
Sun offers for free the Encryption CD for Solaris, that includes
Communicator 4.7 (U.S. encryption), DES, DES3 and a Kerberos server,
all binaries, not source code.
Probably to export strong cryptosystems in binary-form is now
permitted.
Hope this helps,
Igor.
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Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org