Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:01:02 -0700 | From | "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <> | Subject | Re: Encrypted filesystem under Linux. |
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>I thought the US supreme court booted those restrictions.
The case is still being litigated. As of now the ruling only applies to the particular individual involved in the case.
BTW, isn't there a cryptographic random number generator in the driver for /dev/random? If my understanding of the discussion posted by Netscape in connection with the recent Mozilla release is correct, I don't believe that it is legal to export source code for cyptography, even if the cryptography is not used for hiding information (and even if such uses would probalby be exportable in object code) because the source code can be modified for this purpose. I'd hate to see anyone involved with the Linux project (or hosting the distributions) get into hot water.
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