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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!not-for-mail From: chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 7 Jul 1994 14:35:39 +1000 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2vg0mr$1q7@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <ci3nGh600Vpg82T6Rf@andrew.cmu.edu> <JHI.94Jul5185754@alpha.hut.fi> <jwshin.773430509@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> <JHI.94Jul6085638@alpha.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) writes: >jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi): >jhi>Is anyone going to prepare an international version of 4.4-lite? >jhi>The one with the naughty bits doing naughty encryption things cut off? >Jinwoo Shin <jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu>: >js> I think I remember reading somewhere in FreeBSD/386BSD faq that there >js> was an alternative encryption source code written in Australia. >js> Look for the faqs. >The problem is not getting the DES code, there are many outside-US >implementations to choose from, as in any encryption stuff. >In fact, I am sitting about 6m away from one of them, in >ftp://kampi.hut.fi/alo :-) The problem is in the idiotic >regulations that make anyone ftping (transferring, no matter how) >encryption code out of US a foul villain. Therefore if we are to >go by the book, someone in the US should always dissect the evil >encryption code away from the "domestic" version and thus prepare >the "international" version. The same applies to X11R6, Kerberos >on its own, you name it. Surely the answer is to have the encryption stuff written outside the US and then combine them to form one US/international release?