From: Justin Lister <ruf@osiris.cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 18:06:48 PDT
To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
Subject: Re: [ANSWER] NIST's ftp site
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Message-ID: <199406160057.AA20925@osiris.cs.uow.edu.au>
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> Thanks to all who responded to my question.

> The answer is:  csrc.ncsl.nist.gov

> Also, apparently, source for DES was in Appendix A of the file  
> "/pub/nistpubs/fips181.txt".  However, it was removed and replaced with  
> the following:

It wasn't/isn't the only ftp site in US that has fips181.txt available.
There are other sites that still have the information.
Besides I doubt that anyone would having problems finding sources of DES
they are all over the net (in and out of US). Clearly ITAR fails so be
happy.

[stuff deleted]

> I wonder if they'll ship to an address outside of the US or Canada?  I  
> wonder if the people who package and mail the stuff even look at it?

Why bother just find it on another site, there are plenty out there.

> Jim_Miller@suite.com

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