Unix software and USSR

Steve Scherf steve at altos86.Altos.COM
Wed Sep 26 10:40:52 AEST 1990


>	Vadim Antonov
>	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
>	(It is NOT a joke!)

A while back you mentioned that you have the source to BSD, etc., over there
at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Tell me, do I just not understand
the technology protection rules in the U.S., or isn't Unix source barred from
the USSR? I suppose you also have source to the DES encryption algorithm?
We're not even allowed to ship the C library with the DES algorithm to Europe,
so I can hardly believe you are allowed to have the source! Enlighten me.
-- 
Steve Scherf
steve at Altos.COM    ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!steve

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