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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
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Posted: Tue Sep 18 20:29:40 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:10:30 EDT
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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-