Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:11:43 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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> > > > Todd T. Fries wrote: > > > > > Perhaps someone could browse to http://www.openbsd.org and see if their > > > suggestion of going through Canada are valid? > > For people who don't know, he's referring to a scheme where someone in the > U.S. would export cryptography software to someone in Canada, who would > then turn around and re-export the software to the rest of the world. > > This won't work; a U.S. resident who exports crypto to Canada with the > intention of having someone in Canada re-export the software WILL be > prosecutable in the U.S. Big Brother is watching! > > For any cryptography to be integrated into the mainline Linux kernel, the > cryptography will have to be implemented outside the U.S., and the kernel > will have to be maintained from outsided the U.S. Unless the cryptography > is usable only for authentication. Additionally, once crypto gets into the > mainline kernel, the kernel will not be re-exportable from the U.S.
Somehow, I feel that it will be the programmers who lead the Revolution.
-- -Neil Moore (finger amethyst@170.180.106.55 for my geek code)
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