[sci.crypt] Unix software and USSR

kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) (10/02/90)

    From UNIX today 1-Oct-90, page 65:

Unix System Laboratories Europe said that the Department of COmmerce has
cleared for export to Eastern European countries licenses for Unix
System V source code. 

The company also said that it has been successful in removing the
requirement for a separate international version of the UNIX System V
source code without the password security feature.  In the future, a
single Unix System V will be available in the United States and abroad. 
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alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon) (10/05/90)

In <632@demott.COM>, kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) says:

> Unix System Laboratories Europe said that the Department of COmmerce has
> [ ... ]
> source code without the password security feature.  In the future, a
> single Unix System V will be available in the United States and abroad. 

	Specially since it was like closing the barn door
	after the horse had fled...  and a major pain for
	most of us, who did not seserve being treated like
	this (after all we are NATO allies!).

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