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Re: Change in Export Rules

daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Fri Jun 23 18:57:58 1989

From: encore!cloud9!cme@BU-CS.BU.EDU  (Carl Ellison)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

In article <8906230453.AA21081@PTT.LCS.MIT.EDU>, Saltzer@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jerry Saltzer) writes: [here paraphrased]
1.  "ancillary encryption control devices" are controlled
2.  leaving out the DES package isn't enough
3.  leaving out the calls to the DES package is enough

> [...] those sources would be exportable without the special
> State Department license.  (The line of reasoning here seems to be
> that one must be very knowledgeable to put the calls back in in all
> the right places.)


How knowledgeable?

What if the calls were commented out?

If that's not good enough, what if the call lines are deleted, leaving
a blank line?


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