On 22 Jul 96 05:06:06 -0800, tcmay@got.net wrote:

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Which raises an interesting question: Why aren't they (still) restricting PC-type computers for export? While it might not appear to make a great deal of sense either, a PC is just as much a tool for encryption as the software which runs on it. And it's obvious that given the two scenarios below:

But they _are_ (so far as I know, though I haven't checked recently).

That is, there are export restrictions on computers and programs which can perform certain mathematical operations faster than some specfied limit. For example, FFTs faster than a certain rate.

My copy of Mathematica, updated less than 18 months ago, says "Not for Export," and this was not because it contained any crypto code, but because of the performance on certain algorithms (on commonly available machines).

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