Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!jcp From: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: DES not available outside US? Message-ID: <4710@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 20:29:40 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4710 Posted: Tue Sep 18 20:29:40 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:10:30 EDT References: <21bdf834.1de6@apollo.uucp> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 9 You bet! In fact, if you order a System V distribution outside the US you don't get any of the DES routines, but get replacements based on some other algorithm. Its highly illegal to ship that stuff out of the country. And yes, its because they don't want the encryption technology getting into enemy hands. (I suppose it would make life too difficult for the spooks...) Although I CANT IMAGINE that no one in Russia can write a DES algorithm... -JCP-