Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:26:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Alexander <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote:
> Now here's an interesting question.. at first I was going to suggest that > since modules work so nicely an encryption module could be created and > maintained from outside the U. S., which could be loaded using the module > utilities. But, that got me to thinking about some older discussions on > cryptography export. > > Isn't it illegal to export cryptography or software with hooks for > cryptography or that cryptography was easily added. I forget the exact > workings of it, but it seems that under certain situations even just the > hooks to allow cryptography to be added was also against export. If that is > the case, where does that put the linux kernel with modules?? > > Just a thought.. hopefully I'm wrong!!
It's not a hook for cryptography: it's a hook for pre-processing of network (or filesystem or whatever) information. It could just as easily be compression as encrypiton...if the kernel provides a generic enough interface then I think it's okay, which would be a good idea anyways. Besides, if I remember right, wasn't there a libc distribution without crypt where you had to download crypt off another site? Blah, I'm prolly getting confused.
Greg Alexander http://www.cia-g.com/~sietch/
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