Dr Dobbs "CD ROM"

Curiously; thumbing through the last issue of Dr Dobbs (April
94 -- it just made it into the newsagents here), I notice their
CD ROM for sale (well, I've seen it in previous issues, but
just thought about the point I'm going to make now).

Considering that previous issues of Dr Dobbs have contained
cryptographic algorithms (ie. Nov '93 -- scheiner & IDEA), and
this CD ROM makes the code available, then how did they get an
export license -- if indeed they did ?  The order form for the
CD ROM states "add $x.xx if outside US or Canada", so their
market is clearly international.

Does anyone have this CD ROM, is the code in "ready to compile"
form, is it all there ?

Matthew.

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Matthew Gream
Consent Technologies
Sydney, (02) 821-2043
M.Gream@uts.edu.au

I hadn't heard about the CD ROM; thanks for the note.

It would seem that this may be another appropriate pair of subjects
for official State Department Commodity Jurisdiction requests. I could
certainly file them myself as I did for Applied Cryptography, but why
don't you do it? Anyone can file these requests, you don't have to be
a US citizen or resident of the US to do so. And all the information
you need is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.cygnus.com in
/pub/export/cjr.kit.  My own filings, along with some others, are also
available there as a reference; feel free to plagairize.

It would certainly help to show State that not only is Applied
Cryptography just one of many similar items, but that I'm not the only
person who is concerned enough about the idiocy of the US export rules
to actually do something instead of just flaming on the net.

If you do this, please post copies of all correspondence here.

Phil

I have the DD CD and will check it out for you.

I can state for a fact that the InfoSelect Internet Tools CD-ROM did
include PGP-2.2 in Unix (RR) format as well as DOS.  When I first
saw that I reported it to the list, with that same question on my
mind (re exporting.)

Now that the info is on this list, I wonder how long it will take the TLA's
to pounce on this one...

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On Mon, 16 May 1994, Matthew Gream wrote:

> Subject: Dr Dobbs "CD ROM"
> 
> Curiously; thumbing through the last issue of Dr Dobbs (April
> 94 -- it just made it into the newsagents here), I notice their
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> Does anyone have this CD ROM, is the code in "ready to compile"
> form, is it all there ?
>