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In article <JGJ.92Apr6150320@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com>
jgj@ssd.csd.harris.com (Jeff Jackson) writes:

   > 3500: [1641:eay@psych.ps] v29i044: libdes - DES encryption library, Part02/04

   Is someone trying to get USENET blasted out of existance?  Export of
   encryption software is forbidden in this country.

Which country are you talking about?  Look at the article header -- it
was submitted from Australia to the co-moderator of comp.sources.misc,
who posted it from England:

> From: eay@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Eric Young)
> Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
> Subject: v29i043: libdes - DES encryption library, Part01/04
> Message-ID: <csm-v29i043=libdes.234005@aber.ac.uk>
> Date: 3 Apr 92 22:40:35 GMT
> Sender: aem@aber.ac.uk (Alec David Muffett)
> Followup-To: comp.sources.d
> Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
> Lines: 2312
> Approved: aem@aber.ac.uk
> X-Md4-Signature: 9f382ac7159601bb8bc7296560ec5188

If anyone *did* post DES code from within the US, it would be the
poster's neck and not the collective neck of Usenet that would be at
stake.

To pick a nit, export of encryption software is *not* forbidden in the
US; you just have to have the appropriate export license from the
State or Commerce Department.  Of course, the license may have a few
restrictions.  :-)
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