[3263] in Kerberos
Re: International ftp of Kerberos "bones"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Thu May 12 17:16:55 1994
To: mok@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx (Mauricio Plaza Villegas)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU, gnu@cygnus.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 May 1994 12:59:59 MDT."
<9405121859.AA04835@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 13:57:12 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus.com>
> Is there an International ftp site where people from other country
> can get it? I wouldn't mind if this kerberos doesn't comes with DES.
You can get the "bones" of kerberos V4 (patchlevel 6) from
ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/kerberos/bones.tar.Z
It is legal to export this software from the U.S., since all the DES
code and the calls to it have been removed. (It may also be possible
to export more functional versions of Kerberos, since it offers
authentication rather than information-hiding, but this has not been
tested legally.) The READMEs in the FTP directory at MIT don't talk
about this software any more, since it's an older version and was only
recently restored to the archive after it got formal export
permission.
For a summary of the export situation on this file (and other
crypto-related export documents), Web to
http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/export.html
or look at the files in
ftp://www.cygnus.com/pub/export
Full details, including all the correspondence with the relevant U.S.
government agencies, and full copies of the regulations involved, are
in both places.
John Gilmore
Cygnus Support
