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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DES - non us
Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:11:45 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <3ciao0$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com>,
Reinier Kleipool <reink@neth.hp.com> wrote:
>Paulo Menezes (paulo@@dee.uc.pt) wrote:
>: Is there a no US DES implementation for FreeBSD 2.0R?
>
>What i am asking myself is: In all commecial un*x DES is used.

This isn't true.  Some OS vendors don't send out software with
DES.  At least, this *used* to be the case.

>But they
>distribute only the compiled *.o file. So why cant we use the compiled
>crypt.o outside the USA.

In order to do this you have to get a munitions export license, which
although is not expensive it's not worth the hassle.


Nate

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