Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:49:49 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) | From | "G. Gregory" <> | Subject | Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions |
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Thomas wrote: > > The US Government considers this kind of crypto hook the same as > > exporting crypto. (Kind of the way that some religions equate lusting > > after a woman the same as adultry. Allowing crypto into your source > > is the same as encrypting in the real world.)
> What if we set up encryption hooks and include a 56-Bit DES library? > AFAIK this is perfectly legal (Microsoft and Netscape are doing the > same). Someone outside the US (or better the Waasenar Agreement) could > provide a crypt-daemon or kernel-module for _R_E_A_L_ encryption then.
Wouldn't that just cause problems in France based on previous posts content. It would be better IMO to build in the hook then supply a compression algorithm. Then there are no download problems, it is obviously a compression hook and not a crypto hook as we have supplied an algorithm for compression. Love to see a lawyer prove that the compression routine is actually a substitute for a crypto algorithm :-)
Graeme
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