Unix software and USSR
Jan Christiaan van Winkel
jc at atcmp.nl
Thu Sep 27 23:04:07 AEST 1990
> said -'Oh, you wan't to help us to retrieve the tapes?'. Apart from that there
> are many many DES implementations not written in the US, and therefore not
> restricted. Check out the one which was distributed in comp.sources.something,
> it was carefully set up not to pass the US, which is illegal, but sent both
> from Australia and Finland I think. Such rubbish.
And don't forget the implementation (in PASCAL) of DES in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's
book 'Computer Networks'!
Would it be allowed to bring a copy of it into the States and then back out
again? I don't think so. Everyone seems to have it, but it is not allowed
to transport it via the USA.
I wonder - how much paperwork is done in vain for this silly DES rule?
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