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Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?



On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 04:01:21PM +1100, Chris wrote:
> 
> Why can't you use crypto?  AFAIK there is no law regarding import - it should
> only be us foreigners who cannot use crypto cause we can't get it out of the
> US (which, of course, ignorantly assumes the US is the _only_ place any decent
> crypto comes from).

Government employees/systems are regulated even more and are strictly
forbidden to use non-key-escrow encryption. Basically that mean we can use
a weak form af DES and that is it. We can't even us gpg.

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