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Re: US citizens forbidden from shadow.cabi.net????

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Titz)
Sun Feb 11 22:10:24 1996

To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
Date: 	11 Feb 1996 23:20:48 +0100

Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com> wrote:
> it so much of a crisis now? If you are worried about some stupid
> (meaning un-enforceable) law then I remind you that Germany has a much
> more stringent law along the same lines. Yet, U.K. sites don't seem to
> be overly concerned about Germany.

Can you elaborate which German regulations are you referring to?
I'm not aware of any that would fit this description. (The CI$ affair
was a different thing, btw.)

> It would mean that no one outside the U.S.A. could use things such as

...such as kerberos 5, and kerberos 4 only with a questionable hack.
Secure RPC and therefore any NFS usage in an even halfway
security-sensitive environment needs it.

This is reality already.

olaf
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