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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 7 Jul 1994 07:30:34 GMT
Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
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References: <ci3nGh600Vpg82T6Rf@andrew.cmu.edu> <JHI.94Jul5185754@alpha.hut.fi> <jwshin.773430509@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> <JHI.94Jul6085638@alpha.hut.fi> <2vg0mr$1q7@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
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In article <2vg0mr$1q7@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) writes:
|> 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?
As long as the international version keeps off US sites, this would be ok.
However, once uploaded to a US site, and non-US people are no longer allowed
to retrieve them, making them the "foul villains" mentioned above. Suppose
I would write an encryption algorithm and upload it to, say, wuarchive, then
even I, as the copyright holder, am prohibited by law to get a copy of my
own code back from there.
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