DES export regulations. And what to do about it!

[Ronnie Kon]

In article <1991Jan02.202703.8608 at decuac.dec.com> bhoughto at hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>...i.e., there's something to be said for prohibiting the
>export of sensitive technologies, regardless of the availability
>of related scientific information.

	Gee, I'm sure glad the Ruskies have never thought of sending a student
to UC Berkeley to get them a copy of the crypt() function (which implements
DES encryption).  Thank God for the US Commerce department.

	:-)

				Ronnie
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