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From: zeta@runx.OZ (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: There are basically no export controls on public domain information
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Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 21:37:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 31 21:37:16 1986
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>   Perhaps somebody should simply post a copy of the source to the net and
>   then all the hassles will be over.

	I'm no lawyer, but as far as I'm aware, US laws don't apply to us
here in Australia, and it appears the Canadians don't have any technology
export laws either.  I'm unsure of Australia's position on this, they'd
probably lock them up for "endangering national security" [or some such bull]
however I would not bet that the Russian's didn't already have the full
text of both DES and crypt(1) methods, with 'C' source.  In that case, the
restriction is pointless.

	The average man in the street can't break the encryptions, so if
I want to send steamy love letters to a girl in Boston via UUCP I consider
it perfectly safe to use crypt(1). Neither the Russians nor the FBI would
waste their time on it.

	For state or national secrets the Russians can simply send somebody
to the USA to pick up the source code from any site with crypt(1) and a
source license.


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