🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan20.120919.14235@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:

   In article <1378@taniwha.UUCP>, paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
   |> In article <1993Jan15.101326.27072@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
   |>  
   |> >|> Heck, maybe we could throw in calls to encrypt and decrypt...
   |> 
   |> >(which is only currently legally available within the USA, or from
   |> >free, formally unmaintained, sources outside)
   |> 
   |> Name one country where calling encrypt or decrypt is illegal, or where
   |> it's against the law to sell code containing them .... :-)

   ... and so on

   The fact of the matter is that US computer manufacturers don't make
   their implementations of crypt and decrypt available to the likes of
   us here in the UK. 

And you can get a better idea of the picture by FTP-ing to
gatekeeper.pa.dec.com, where you will find the following informative
message:

Script started on Mon Jan 25 12:13:44 1993

ftp> open gatekeeper.pa.dec.com
Connected to gatekeeper.dec.com.
220- *** /etc/motd.ftp ***
     Gatekeeper.DEC.COM is an unsupported service of DEC Corporate Research.
     Use entirely at your own risk - no warranty is expressed or implied.
     Complaints and questions should be sent to <gw-archives@pa.dec.com>.
     
     EXPORT CONTROL NOTE: Non-U.S. ftp users are required by law to follow U.S.
     export control restrictions, which means that if you see some DES or
     otherwise controlled software here, you should not grab it.  Look at
     00README.export-control (in every directory, more or less) to learn more.
     (If your the treaty between your country and the United States did not
     require you to respect U.S. export control restrictions, then you would
     not have Internet connectivity to this host.  Check with your U.S. embassy
     if you want to verify this.)
     
etc...

--
Andrew Ormsby	 AI & Robotics Research Group, Department of Computer Science,
aro@aber.ac.uk   University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK.