From: Vincent.Cate@FURMINT.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 22:15:41 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Government FTP site used to violate ITAR
Message-ID: <771826877/vac@FURMINT.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
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The version of the file fips181.txt with DES code, which was FTPable
from a government machine, (I saw it there some time back myself) has
been exported.  It is now FTPable from the UK.  

I did not see a "NO-EXPORTING" warning like most of us have, so they
could have even caused someone to violate US law unintentionally.
Maybe even someone who thinks that US law applies to everyone on Earth.
So even if someone were to export something from one of our FTP sites,
we still would not be doing something as bad as the government has
done.  

   -- Vince


> dirs
/alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/links/security

> foreach FILE (`gunzip -c < Index.gz | grep fips181`)
? /bin/ls -l $FILE
? end

                                    [output reformatted for 80 columns]
/alex/uk/ac/ox/black/DOCS/security/fips181.txt.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr    41499 Mar  9 11:15 

/alex/org/eff/ftp/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/Newin/New_nist/fips181.txt 
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr   127318 Mar  6 17:39

/alex/org/first/pub/nistpubs/fips181.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr    21021 Mar 25 17:21

/alex/gov/nist/csrc/bbs/nistpubs/fips181.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr    21021 Mar 25 17:21

/alex/it/unimi/dsi/ftp/pub/security/docs/first.org/pub/nistpubs/fips181.txt.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr     7314 Mar 25 17:51

/alex/ca/bc/wimsey/ftp/pub/crypto/Doc/FIPS/fips181.README
-rw-r--r--  1 alexsrvr      164 May 23 19:13


> zcat /alex/uk/ac/ox/black/DOCS/security/fips181.txt.Z > /tmp/fips181.txt

> ll /tmp/fips181.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 vac        127318 Jun 17 00:19 /tmp/fips181.txt

> diff /tmp/fips181.txt
/alex/org/eff/ftp/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/Newin/New_nist/fips181.txt
>