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- From: baird@rushes.enet.dec.com (Alasdair Baird)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd security enhancements are needed before using INTERNET!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.085707.18244@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Jul27.183548.20598@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul27.191435.14721@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul27.214249.1065@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul28.164752.7422@gateway.novell.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:57:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.164752.7422@gateway.novell.com>, terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
- |>
- |> There are exceptions, and it is possible to get an export license
- |>for crypt libraries. It is much easier to get an export license for a
- |>set of binaries (login, passwd, rshd, rlogind, etc.) than it is to get one
- |>for the library itself. Part of the terms of the license include who you
- |>are allowed to sell it to. Internet access is restricted in a similar fashion,
- |>thus it is likely that a grant of license to distribute binary utilities for
- |>386BSD would be allowed, if requested. But this would mean that not all of
- |>386BSD is publically distributable as source.
- |>
-
- Of course if someone were to implement the DES algorithm outside the US, say in
- Australia (perhaps using one of the many books that are freely available which
- explain the algorithm) and then make the source available outside the US, there
- is no problem as it can be imported and used in the US (though not re-exported)
- and obtained and used elsewhere too without breaking US regulations. I think
- the main restriction here is that is has to be DES so the NSA can be sure of
- breaking it any time they want. This would also have the unfortunate effect of
- splitting the distribution in two.
-
- But then you shouldn't beleive anything I say, because not being a US citizen
- I'm probably considered to be an agent of a hostile power...
-
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- Alasdair Baird Digital Equipment Co.
- Speaking only for myself. Livingston, Scotland.
-