[565] in bugtraq
Re: CERT, about NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Schwartz)
Thu Dec 22 16:57:39 1994
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Dec 1994 12:49:34 EST."
<199412221749.MAA15188@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:57:41 -0500
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>
| ... necessary in order to ship it outside the US, thanks to your
| government's brilliant restriction on letting encryption technology
| (that's readily available everywhere) cross out of its borders.
K4-bones is export-ready, so they could use K4 with no such
difficulties.
K5 has a standard api. Someone overseas could code a version to meet
it.
SunOS and Solaris both ship with a homegrown authentication system,
"secure rpc". That didn't stop them from developing the product or
exporting the rest of the system.