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- From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: WordPerfect and US crypto laws
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.140949.4485@dde.dk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:09:49 GMT
- Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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- As far as I know, US laws forbid the export of cryptographic
- software. However, WordPerfect contains a (very simple and insecure)
- cryptographic feature. And WordPerfect is exported from the US with
- this feature. Why is this legal? Is it because the code is so
- easily broken? Is this the very reason for making the code so
- incredibly simple?
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- Claus Tondering
- Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
- E-mail: ct@dde.dk
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