Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [LITTLE BIT OFFTOPIC] Re: crypto | Date | Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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> No -- making encryption hooks is also illegal. Many vendors have been > bitten by this, some have removed them -- others have made their APIs > very generic so they are not explictly crypt-hooks, but just hooks > into the mail-engine or whatever (depending on the application). > > This is how the PGP plugins for M$ stuff work I beleive.
How can the crypto hooks be illegal? Weak encryption is legal as far as I know, so why not supply a weak encryption engine using the hooks - those who want more can then replace the engine with something better. Then there is the definition of a "hook". Anything using encryption must interface to it somehow - this can be done in a number of ways and many of them allows for easy replacement of the encryption stuff.
Helge Hafting
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