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



On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 07:23:47AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.

Geez....whos got a big brother watching??


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