Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:51:33 -0700 From: "David E. Tweten" <tweten@tale.frihet.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: sef@kithrup.com, security@freebsd.org, mark@grondar.za, pst@stupi.se Subject: Re: secure/ changes... Message-ID: <199507261251.FAA08981@tale.frihet.com>
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Rodney W. Grimes writes:
> I would need 2 professional opionions
> before I would import DES code, 1 from a lawyer specilizing in import/export
> law, preferably with some sited Federal rulings from cases, and the 2nd from
> a US Customs officier specializing in munitions.
>
> Those are 2 opinions I could go get if I so desired to import DES, however
> I have no desire to waste my time or energy to do this as I already have
> a legally obtained copy of DES.
>
> Simply put, anything less than what I outline above is here say.
The following is not hearsay.
In my capacity as a software project leader for NASA, under a beta program, I
have distributed about a dozen copies of a Unix package called Portable Batch
System (PBS). It does no crypto because stub DES routines are included, but
its documentation contains references to off-shore sources of DES routines
which may be substituted if a beta site actually wants some security. The
reason for this twisted state of affairs is to permit exportation of PBS after
the beta program is over, and after COSMIC (NASA's software distribution arm)
takes PBS off its temporarily sensative (read "new") technology list.
Our beta sites (currently a dozen or so) have been importing the DES
"munition" as our documentation suggests for over a year. Neither we nor they
have experienced any problem, because importation of crypto is not restricted.
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