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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3cj6u1$7l8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3c2qqq$5hp@gnu.mat.uc.pt> <3ciao0$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.