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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 15:50:54 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal.
Message-ID:  <9506191950.AA09225@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506191911.MAA01606@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
References:  <199506191848.UAA29837@grumble.grondar.za> <199506191911.MAA01606@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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<<On Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:11:07 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> said:

> We still can't export the source to libdescrypt.*, but from my understanding
> we can export the binary of it.  [Is that a correct statement Garrett?]

Not quite.  libdescrypt was designed in such a way that I believe the
State Department would admit that it doesn't actually do encryption,
which would then allow you to apply to the Commerce Department for a
declaration that it is exportable as ``technical data''.  You still
have to apply to the State Department first before attempting to
export the binary.

For extra safefty, the subfunctions called by crypt() could be
inlined.

-GAWollman

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