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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!tools!ws From: ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD outside of US?? Date: 22 Aug 93 21:22:23 Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <WS.93Aug22212223@kurt.tools.de> References: <LMJM.93Aug19143408@kea.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Aug19.135856.24990@gmd.de> <CC40yC.JGq@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <D87-MAL.93Aug22121636@mumrik.nada.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: kurt.tools.de In-reply-to: d87-mal@mumrik.nada.kth.se's message of Sun, 22 Aug 1993 11:16:36 GMT In article <D87-MAL.93Aug22121636@mumrik.nada.kth.se> d87-mal@mumrik.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist) writes: Isn't it the US export regulations that is the problem here? If so it doesn't matter what algorithm it uses; as long as it is useful it will not be legal to export it from the US. This applies to FreeBSD also: if it includes a useful crypt algorithm, it can't be exported. The only way around this I know of is to have it developed (at least the crypt part) and put together outside of the US. Then anyone can use it, as it seems to be ok to _import_ crypt stuff to the US... To the best of my knowledge it's even more crippled. You aren't allowed to export a crypt algorithm from the US even if it was written somewhere else. This means: if we put together a version of bsd with crypt routines written elsewhere and distribute it via the usual ftp channels, people from outside the US would not be allowed to fetch it from a site located within the US. Caveeat emptor: I'm no lawyer, even not a US citizen, so this might all be wrong. -- ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) +49-228-985800