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Re: Internationalizing Kerberos V5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Jan 3 14:52:47 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 3 Jan 1995 18:29:23 GMT
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)

In <Pine.3.85.9501021933.A11596-0100000@fempto> d3c212@fempto.pnl.gov (JP Moore) writes:
>Can a United States organization build the K5 utilities (r-commands,
>telnet, etc.) using DES encryption and legally distribute only the
>binaries outside of the United States?

Provided that the DES is used only for authentication, you will be
able to get a license.  If you allow users access to the DES routines
so that they can encrypt their data (e.g., by adding a flag that says
"call mkpriv on all packets"), you will not be able to get a license.
	/r$

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