DES (crypt) vs. the FTC

Mark Warren mwarren at rws1.ma30.bull.com
Fri Mar 22 01:45:04 AEST 1991


My current belief is that there is no longer any restriction, from the US
government, concerning shipping the DES algorithm overseas.  Can anyone
provide an *AUTHORITIVE* confirmation on this?

It used to be that international Unix distributions had crypt and setkey()
removed.
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