Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:00:28 -0500 (EST) | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: DES module in kernel? |
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:17:11 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Eisler <mre@eng.sun.com>
Whoever is "in charge" of Linux will need to seek legal counsel versed in these issues. The U.S. has relaxed export control laws, and so export of 56 bit DES is possible (I've done it), and legal, but only with an appropriate export control license.
Yes, but to my knowledge the applicable agencies generally don't like giving export control licenses for source which contains DES. After all, once DES made it into an export-approved source base, that means that a patch to do triple-DES is about a 20-line patch. :-)
If someone has any knowledge to the contrary, please let me know, since I'm very interested (for more packages than just Linux), but as far as I know, source-level exports are quite different from the kind of binary-level exports that is generally done for propietary software.
- Ted
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