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Re: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #7

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Tue Jan 28 10:48:15 1997

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:31:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: shamrock@netcom.com
CC: jamesr@magna.com.au, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19970124171232.006c3fac@192.100.81.136> (message from Lucky Green on Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:18:34 -0800)

>If past cryptographic software is any indication, the DES Cracker
>will be available from an overseas ftp site within hours of release in
>the US.

And lacking that, the author can always print it out on paper and
physically mail it out of the country; this is specifically allowed by
the new Commerce rules as I understand them. And who's to say that the
overseas FTP copies weren't scanned from such a paper copy? :-)

Phil


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