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No U.S. export restrictions on MD5, either
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan M Schiffman)
Wed Aug 17 01:46:48 1994
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 19:12:03 PDT
From: ams@eit.COM (Allan M Schiffman)
To: Bernhard.Schneck@physik.tu-muenchen.de
Cc: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
Bernhard writes:
> Well, but there may be other restrictions on MD5: Cryptographic code
> may be considered as munitions and thus export controlled by US
> authorities.
I can't be quite as authoritiative on export restrictions, but absolutely
everything I've ever heard leads me to believe that no message digest
algorithm comes under DTC (a.k.a. ITAR). Its routinely exported, unlike
DES.
-Allan
