DES export regulations. And what to do about it!

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <14511 at hoptoad.uucp> by gnu at hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore):
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| People can endlessly debate the small points of the rules; I want to
| understand the big ones.  WHY SHOULD PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY BE ILLEGAL?
| Why does the US government think that privacy is something neither its
| subjects, nor the citizens of other countries, should have?
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The rest of your message continues the implication that it's all a plot to
make privacy illegal.

That isn't the intent.  Despite the fact that it's all for nought, the U.S.
government is worried about hostile foreign powers violating *its own* privacy
by decrypting its DES-encypted data.  Considering that anyone who wants to
type in code from Andrew S. Tanenbaum's COMPUTER NETWORKS can bring up DES,
this is a bit silly, but nonetheless your assumption that it's Big Brother
out to get us is equally silly.

++Brandon
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