Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:08:48 -0500 | From | Mike Shaver <> | Subject | Re: DES module in kernel? |
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"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: > If someone has any knowledge to the contrary, please let me know, since > I'm very interested (for more packages than just Linux), but as far as I > know, source-level exports are quite different from the kind of > binary-level exports that is generally done for propietary software.
For what it's worth, Netscape's lawyers seem to believe that getting an export license for 40-bit crypto _source_ is not feasible, although we can sometimes get away with 128-bit binary export without too much hassle.
But I, too, would be pleasantly stunned to hear of someone getting an export license for crypto source from the US gov't.
Mike
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