Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:47:21 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] DES/IDEA Encryption |
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From: "Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
<smirk> Once again, I will remind everyone that only citizens of the united states may retrieve the DES/IDEA patches as they contain encryption routines that violate my Wonderful Country's Munitions Export Law. </smirk>
<smirk> The reason why I let Werner take over maintenance of the loop filesystem was because he was in Switzerland; hence he could add the encryption hooks without worrying about the U.S. export problem. I thought he had already done the DES encryption with the loop device, actually....
But that's OK, you see, because the U.S. Goverment believes that only people in the U.S. knows how to program. So, Werner couldn't possibly have added the DES code, since he's from Switzerland. Those of us in the Linux community knows different; that in fact people outside the U.S. can really program. Take a certain hacker from Helsinki, for example.... </smirk>
- Ted
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