[LUNI] Question on PuTTY and export restrictions

[Samir Faci]

I'm not sure about Putty in particular, but this was an interesting read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography



On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM, John Bundy <johnbundy100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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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