Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:53:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: kerneli blowfish/twofish compromised? |
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On 27 Nov 1998 colin@[206.86.255.136] wrote: > In article <199811260313.LAA09708@typhaon.ucs.uwa.edu.au>, > David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > > A third point is that arms are exportable if fired in a rocket over the > > border AFAIK. > > There is a clause in the U.S. export regs that says that rocket launches > don't count as export. This basically covers communications satellites > which use a lot of otherwise restricted aerospace technology. > > Some folks in the bay area actually thought of making a road trip down > to San Diego with a bunch of DAT tapes and some of the larger Estes > offerings, but they asked a lawyer first. > > It's export when it touches down. Thge exepmption is for things going > up and staying there. > > > It probably *is* legal if you launch it into orbit, sell it there, > and the buyer deorbits it. But that's an infeasibly high > cost barrier for the moment.
Alternatively you can broadcast the contents of the DAT tapes from orbit. Listening to radio RSA :-) Still expensive, though.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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