[2096] in Kerberos
Re: is kadmind exportable as a binary? if so, begging letter.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie Kaufman)
Fri Aug 14 22:09:30 1992
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 21:47:25 EDT
From: Charlie Kaufman <kaufman@kibitz.enet.dec.com>
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
Apparently-To: kerberos@athena.mit.edu
Ted Ts'o writes:
>Just to set the record straight; it's not just the United States. Any
>of the twenty or so countries who have signed the COCOM treaty will have
>such restrictions. The COCOM treaty basically says that any
>cryptographic material will be treated as *munitions*, and you are not
>allowed to export munitions to another country --- even including
>to another country which has signed the COCOM treaty --- without an
>export license.
I've heard this story before; I've even told it. Recently I've seen an
announcement from University College London making crypto code
available for use with OSI protocols. It claims to be freely
exportable anywhere except the U.S. (where it would infringe on the RSA
patent rather than violate export laws). I assume the U.K. is a COCOM
country, so this would appear to contradict the statement above (unless
UCL is ignorant of the law or has chosen to ignore it).
Does anyone have any idea how they get away with it? I'd settle for
caveated theories.
--Charlie
