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From: outer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: DES not available outside US?
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:38:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 17:38:13 1984
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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 Outerbridge		416 978 2742
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