[42432] in Cypherpunks
FTP export walls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mats Bergstrom)
Fri Oct 27 12:36:57 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:19:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510271446.KAA13555@jekyll.piermont.com>
>Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Michael Froomkin writes:
> > If anyone from MIT is reading this, it would be a real public service to
> > put on a web site (a) what the system used for the release of PGP is
> > exactly and (b) what assurances (oral, written, names & dates) was
> > received from State/Commerce that this was legal.
> I don't think they got any sort of approval from State or Commerce --
> I think they just discussed it with their own lawyers.
Last July *hobbit* (hobbit@avian.org) presented to this list a
description of "The FTP Bounce Attack" and stated that it's trivial to
hack past a defense like this (well, it didn't seem trivial to me, but
I'm not a unix wizard). Obviously, there is no real need for such attacks
with PGP and 'everything' else available at non-US sites, and I guess it
would leave traces? But it would be interesting to know if anybody have
successfully tried it at MIT or some other export-restricted FTP site.
Mats
