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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:24:25 +0200 (EET)
From: Seppo Kallio <kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: Frank <frankd@yoda.fdt.net>, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE,
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Subject: Re: passwd linux and FreeBSD
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On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> Frank stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > And you might try to imagine, just for a moment,
> > > that he doesn't have to EXPORT it from the US, in 
> > > order to IMPORT it to Italy ...
> >
> > DES is STILL subject to US export restrictions. 
> 
> NOT if you DON'T GET IT FROM THE US.  Open your eyes, Frank.  DES isn't
> some magical American invention, the FreeBSD implementation, IIRC, was
> written by a Queenslander, and is maintained by a South African.

I am 99% sure irc as originally invented by one student in Finland in Oulu.

There is Eurocrypt. You can load DES for FreeBSD from many European ftp 
servers, here some:

drwxr-xr-x    2.0K 1995 Jul 14 ftp.tu-chemnitz.de   
/MCACHE/fi/nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
drwxr-sr-x    1.0K 1996 Jan 14 ftp.univie.ac.at     
/systems/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
drwxrwxr-x     512 1996 Jan  6 ftp.cd.chalmers.se   
/pub/os/FreeBSD-eurocrypt
-rw-r--r--    9.7K 1995 Oct 23 ftp.tu-chemnitz.de   
/MCACHE/de/ftp.informatik.uni-hildesheim.de/pub/FB4.WWW/Institute/Informatik/issi/sirene/conf/Programme/95052125.Eurocrypt
-rw-r--r--    9.7K 1995 Apr 24 ftp.informatik.uni-hildesheim.de 
/pub/FB4.WWW/Institute/Informatik/issi/sirene/conf/Programme/+1995/95052125.Eurocrypt
-r--r--r--    9.7K 1996 Jan 12 ftp.zurich.ibm.ch    
/pub/sti/g-kk/sirene/conf/Programme/+1995/95052125.Eurocrypt
-rw-r--r--   71.9K 1995 Jul  4 ftp.tu-chemnitz.de   
/MCACHE/edu/scss3.cl.msu.edu/pub/crypt/docs/idea-eurocrypt90.zip
-r--r--r--   71.9K 1993 Dec 15 ftp.isst.fhg.de      
/protected/security/docs/crypt/ripem.msu.edu/idea-eu

Seppo