Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:17:11 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [LITTLE BIT OFFTOPIC] Re: crypto |
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On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I think better idea how to go around u.s. laws is to specify > something like Genral Encryption Interface. If you include > encryption engine in linux, u.s. gov. doesn't you allow to export > it. But if you include only calls to encryption engine and user has > to download engine from some place in his country, it should be > legal. Does anything like this already exist?
No -- making encryption hooks is also illegal. Many vendors have been bitten by this, some have removed them -- others have made their APIs very generic so they are not explictly crypt-hooks, but just hooks into the mail-engine or whatever (depending on the application).
This is how the PGP plugins for M$ stuff work I beleive.
-cw
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