Exportable RIPEM code available

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2 total messages Started by Mark Riordan Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:18

#61

Author: Mark Riordan
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:18

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A copy of RIPEM 1.0.3 source code, with all cryptographic code
removed, is now available via anonymous FTP from ripem.msu.edu.
I am now reasonably certain that this code is exportable, so
non-USA users can now get it.  Without RSAREF, RIPEM is just
a big mail header parser/DER-encoder/command-line parser/etc.

Note that the code will not compile and link, and it certainly
won't run, due to the lack of RSAREF and RSAREF's header files.

The filename is /pub/crypt/ripem/ripem-1.0.3-no-crypto-stuff.tar.Z.
It includes RIPEM documentation, which is very short on 
cryptographic theory.

This code is in the public domain.

The export restrictions on the binaries and the full source
distribution remain in effect.

Mark R.

Re: Exportable RIPEM code available

#64

Author: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:14

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mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes:

> A copy of RIPEM 1.0.3 source code, with all cryptographic code
> removed, is now available via anonymous FTP from ripem.msu.edu.
> I am now reasonably certain that this code is exportable, so
> non-USA users can now get it.  Without RSAREF, RIPEM is just
> a big mail header parser/DER-encoder/command-line parser/etc.

Great, so now I guess those users outside the USA who would like to
use RIPEM could try to rewrite the missing stuff... As a beginning, it
should be relatively easy to adapt one of the public domain DES
packages. And equivalent of RSAREF could probably be written using the
parts of PGP.

> Note that the code will not compile and link, and it certainly
> won't run, due to the lack of RSAREF and RSAREF's header files.

Ah, yes, indeed, this is a problem. Those header files actually
contain the interface to the RSAREF routines... Maybe RSA should be
asked to publish at least them freely? The interface alone does not do
any encryption, so there shouldn't be any problems exporting it...

Regards,
Vesselin
-- 
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
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