Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 19:54:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? |
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Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote: > > > > > - Encryption at the IP level (IPsec?) > > > > Non-exportable, so cannot go into the standard kernel. > > Wrong. There is a court ruling that says that if source code to > encryption is available, then the encryption is ruled as speech and as > such, it is unconstitutional to limit the exportation of it.
Says http://www.eff.org/bernstein/19990507_eff_pressrel.html:
EFF anticipates that the government will ask for a stay of this ruling pending appeal. If granted, the stay would prohibit encryption exports even within the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction, including all federal courts in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, until the matter is finally resolved.
The last I heard, France (http://www.asi.fr/~martinez/crypto/project/FINAL.html#_Toc415913699) and Russia had restrictions on the use of cryptography, and also the Wassenaar Arrangement (http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/Cat5P2.html) might become a problem for free software (http://k-elektronik.org/berita/jan1999/rms.txt). __ Trevor Johnson
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