Re: DES module in kernel?

Mike Eisler (mre@eng.sun.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:55:37 -0800 (PST)

> It you feel obligated to follow supranational U.S. law, you may. Others
> who
> feel differently (such as the maintainer of the ftp site) may not. It's a
> choice you have, though as a U.S. resident, not one that I have.
>
> Whatever my personal feelings about how silly and/or stupid current
> U.S. laws may be (and you may be sure that I communicate to my
> Congresscritters about this from time to time)....
>
> Officially, however, I cannot condone someone who might have illegally

I didn't condone the "illegal" export, I merely refused to congratulate Trond
for not using the code that was already exported.

BTW, a legal route for this might have been through Canada:

http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/crypto-export.html

which chronicles the successful, sanctioned export from Canada to England of
MIT Kerberos V5, beta 5 on a floppy disk.

So I may owe the ftp site maintainer an apology for terming his acquisition as
illegal. Only he knows.

-mre

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