Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!outer From: outer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: DES not available outside US? Message-ID: <33@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:38:13 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.33 Posted: Tue Sep 25 17:38:13 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:44:19 EDT References: <21bdf834.1de6@apollo.uucp>, <999@ulysses.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 16 Important Clarification: There are *no* export restrictions on DES material exported to *Canada* from the United States (this from the Office of Munitions Control in Washington). Going the other way, there are no export controls *at all* on cryptographic material (per se) exported from Canada to the United States (this from External Affairs in Ottawa). The U.S. exemption is an explicit exception, whereas very few Canadian export controls effect the United States at all. I agree the restriction on software is silly, it's obviously aimed at hardware implementations. As presented in the standard (hence as supplied with UNIX) the software is pretty useless for practical purposes anyway. One last point: the algorithm *has* been adopted as a software standard, and in that form is properly called the DEA. -- Richard Outerbridge416 978 2742 Payload Deliveries: N 41 39'36", W 79 23'42", Elev. 106.47m.