[LUNI] US export laws and PuTTY program

[John Bundy]

Hi,

I was using PuTTY in a class I am teaching and one student was concerned
about the legal issue with US export of encryption technology.

I asked the students with windows PCs to download putty.exe from
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/download.html>
for ssh access to some accounts I created at sdf-eu.org.

I am quite sure downloading and using in US in not an issue.  Maybe the
following could be:
1.  Making PuTTY available on a webserver in the US
2.  Emailing it outside the US
3.  Having it on a PC and taking outside the US.

I note Mac OS X supports ssh command.

Any comments?

Part of the class objective is to learn basic bash commands like ls, pwd, cd
chmod etc.

Regards,
John Bundy
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