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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp.hut.fi!jhi From: jhi@snakemail.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 06 Jul 1994 05:56:37 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <JHI.94Jul6085638@alpha.hut.fi> References: <ci3nGh600Vpg82T6Rf@andrew.cmu.edu> <JHI.94Jul5185754@alpha.hut.fi> <jwshin.773430509@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.hut.fi In-reply-to: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 5 Jul 94 17:48:29 GMT 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. ++jhi; P.S. I've heard that the most fanatical people even say that getting that Aussie DES code is "illegal" by U.S. laws as the wire (well, satellite link?) goes through the States. Sigh. Ridiculouser and ridiculouser.