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- From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
- Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp,sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:51:59 -0500
- Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- > The above statement, is a complete mess. First, according to ITAR,
- > exporting of ANY encryption software might be illegal, not just of DES.
-
- Correct, by my understanding.
-
- > (I just wonder how all those crypt(3) functions in the Unixes around
- > were exported...)
-
- They weren't. Export versions of UNIX have the crypt(3) functions removed
- from the C libraries. The login program (which uses crypt(3) internally to
- authenticate passwords) turns out to be OK, because it cannot be used to
- encrypt or decrypt information. I have seen it reported in print that there
- is an exemption from ITAR for software which performs authentication only
- (and cannot be used for encipherment), but I have not located the specific
- regulation in question.
-
- > Fortunately, the USA is not the only country that has programmers, so
- > there are plenty of free DES implementations around. I really cannot
- > understand why RIPEM is not available for anonymous ftp, without the DES
- > and the RSAREF stuff. Anybody should be able to plug in additional
- > DES- and RSAREF-compatible modules...
-
- This possibility is being explored. Making it available without DES included
- is not a problem. Making it available without RSAREF, but still assuming the
- *use* of RSA in its operation, may not be enough to satisfy RSA's lawyers.
- However, we shall see how this develops. I hope that something along these
- lines can be worked out.
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- Amanda Walker
- InterCon Systems Corporation
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