Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Crypto] Re: ftp.kernel.org vs. ftp.funet.fi | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:30:27 -0400 | From | shendrix@escape ... |
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In message <199704190944.FAA04829@jenolan.caipgeneral>, "David S. Miller" write s:
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:27:12 +0200 > From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> > > We should specify an interface with which a loadable module, > developed outside the U.S., could provide crypto functions, and > other modules or parts of the kernel could elect to use them if > available. > > Won't work, there are laws that say it is also illegal to export > anything which "allows non-exportable crypto to be plugged in > easily".
Doesn't that mean that almost any IPC is illegal then, since most of it would allow easy plug-in of crypto? I mean, PGP is easily plugged in via pipes to most mailers, so aren't pipes illegal by that definition?
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