Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: DES module in kernel? | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:34:07 -0800 (PST) |
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, G. Allen Morris III wrote: > > > What are the issues (legal?) of putting DES in the linux kernel? > > I'm not a lawyer but I think that officially it's illegal to export. > We'll have international kernels soon that include various enctyption > modules. > > Then again, according to the Wassenaar agreement which the US also signed, > they agreed to some odd clause saying 'if the encryption is in the public > domain then export is legal'.
Yes, but U.S., Russian, Chinese, and, until recently, French law go way beyond Wassenaar.
-hpa
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