From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!ti-eg.CSNET!LINNIG From: LINNIG@ti-eg.CSNET.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.ada Subject: RE: Government Control of Ada Message-ID: <8607160001.AA28422@ucbvax> Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 20:56:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8607160001.AA28422 Posted: Tue Jul 15 20:56:25 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jul-86 03:57:03 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet List-Id: Forwarded by request of the author: ...................................................................... From: Mats_Ohlin_FOA2%qzcom.mailnet%MIT-MULTICS.ARPA 15-JUL-1986 00:36 To: "Mike Linnig" Subj: RE: Government Control of Ada Yes, I agree. I am working for the Swedish Defence, we are encountering these kind of problems more and more now. I could sympatize with the general concern in USDoD to control the transfer of sensitive information out of the US. However, when it concerns general things (general software, but also hardware /TEMPEST/) it gives us some problems. Naturally, we want to make the Swedish Defence as effective as possible, with each Swedish crown invested in the best possible way. US export regulations actually makes it less effective also for neutral countries like Switzerland and Sweden. Even if it often is possible to get export permission it requires a lot of paper work and takes a lot of time. It concerns also workstations containing 68020... and even the crypt program in UNIX (which, in the latter case, may be a good thing... but not as DoC thinks). It concerns our possibilities to buy TEMPEST approved equipment when we want to create secure systems; giving us higher cost (and great motivation to arrange national development and production, which in the long run may be fruitful for us though). (Standard disclaimer: opinions are my own, not necessarily different from my employer /Sw Nat'l Def Research Inst/). -- Mats Ohlin (Please forward this to the Ada Mailing List, my system seems to have lost the proper net address.)