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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: NEED GENERAL INFORMATION ON WIRELESS LANS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.154453.4154@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:44:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.085140.18307@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
- >In article <WCS.92Nov5231548@rainier.ATT.COM>, wcs@anchor (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705) writes:
- >>If you want a product plug, AT&T / NCR's WaveLAN product uses
- >>spread-spectrum radio, which is hard to intercept and relatively
- >>tolerant of noise and other LANs in the same area,
- >>and offers an optional DES encryption chip (US only, I assume)
-
- >Just a comment about semantics .. it hardly makes sense to talk about
- >"US only" encryption devices, since it is the USA who has the export
- >and use restrictions (via export laws, software patents and apparently
- >by control of law in the future), not the rest of the world. You
- >probably mean "not to be exported from USA", assuming you are talking
- >about U.S. companies.
-
- Minor quibble. It's not *just* the US. Any country which is a signatory
- to the COCOMM treaty (which will include most of NATO, much of Europe
- and many other countries) has to respect US export regulations. Ie:
- Canadian companies had to submit applications to COCOMM (via the dept of
- External Affairs) for the export of certain technologies, including DES.
-
- >There are several DES chip and device manufacturers in Europe who are
- >glad to sell and glad about increased sales due to the export
- >restrictions.
-
- Depending on which country they're in, it may be illegal for them to
- export it too. However, as long as they don't export it, they'll
- not have difficulties with US Export regulations or COCOMM treaties,
- and they'll reap the sales benefit of not having to compete with the US
- or any other COCOMM country.
-