Re: kerneli blowfish/twofish compromised?
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:53:08 +0100 (CET)
On 27 Nov 1998 colin@[206.86.255.136] wrote:
> In article <199811260313.LAA09708@typhaon.ucs.uwa.edu.au>,
> David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > A third point is that arms are exportable if fired in a rocket over the
> > border AFAIK.
>
> There is a clause in the U.S. export regs that says that rocket launches
> don't count as export. This basically covers communications satellites
> which use a lot of otherwise restricted aerospace technology.
>
> Some folks in the bay area actually thought of making a road trip down
> to San Diego with a bunch of DAT tapes and some of the larger Estes
> offerings, but they asked a lawyer first.
>
> It's export when it touches down. Thge exepmption is for things going
> up and staying there.
>
>
> It probably *is* legal if you launch it into orbit, sell it there,
> and the buyer deorbits it. But that's an infeasibly high
> cost barrier for the moment.
Alternatively you can broadcast the contents of the DAT tapes from orbit.
Listening to radio RSA :-) Still expensive, though.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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