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1995-07-28 - Re: NSA and the NCSA/Apache web servers

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From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
To: Greg_Rose@sibelius.sydney.sterling.com (Greg ROSE)
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-28 10:45:54 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 03:45:54 PDT

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From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 03:45:54 PDT
To: Greg_Rose@sibelius.sydney.sterling.com (Greg ROSE)
Subject: Re: NSA and the NCSA/Apache web servers
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> 
>   
> "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <axon@neuron.net> wrote:
>   Wow -- hooks to encryption are unexportable -- now THAT's bullshit.  Sheesh.
> 
> A few yuears ago I asked Matt Blaze if he would
> publish CFS with the sryptography removed, and he
> told me that AT&T's lawyers also believed this to
> be true. (So, of course, his answer was "No".)
> The hooks are as important as the crypto code.
> 
> Interestingly though, Kerberos made it to
> Australia (Bond University I think) legally.

Actually, neither hooks nor encryption are unexportable, you just need
a license to export them.  I got a license to export an RSA encryption
scheme and a general purpose hook into encryption for integrity toolkit.
It took a few months and was not very difficult, but you have to apply.

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