From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:48:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ftp://www.brooks.af.mil/pub/unix/utils/des.tar
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> Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> writes:
> 
> This seems to be
> /* Sofware DES functions
> * written 12 Dec 1986 by Phil Karn, KA9Q; large sections adapted from
> * the 1977 public-domain program by Jim Gillogly
> * Modified for additional speed - 6 December 1988 Phil Karn
> * Modified for parameterized key schedules - Jan 1991 Phil Karn

> Would someone from outside the US try to download the above file?
> It would be, at least, amusing if an Air Force site were in violation
> of the ITAR (their README notwithstanding).

Hurm -- if Phil Karn and I knowingly allow it to remain there, that puts
us in the same position as Phil Zimmermann, right?  Oh -- except that our
offenses may already be beyond the statute of limitations.

	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 27 Halimath S.R. 1995, 17:48