george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart) (10/23/86)
In article <470@sask.UUCP> brecht@sask.UUCP writes: >The restrictions are ludicrous. You can get the DES encryption document >here in Canada -- I have it as an appendix in a computer science textbook of >mine. If that is sufficient to write a DES encryptor, then any export >controls on programs containing such an encryptor are futile. > >The restriction on exporting crypt is even more laughable. We've used it in >Canada for years; the machine that I'm writing on has it. > >DES and crypt are *already* out of American hands. Export restrictions on >those particular algorithms seem to be pointless hassling of American >firms by the State Department. Note that when it comes up for recertification, (around '88 or so), DES will *not* be recertified by the NBS as the US Gov't standard encryption algorithm. The article in which I read this did not specify what would replace it. -- Regards, George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd. UUCP: utzoo >!mnetor!george seismo BELL: (416)475-8980