Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: idea: MAC level compression & crypto | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:39:01 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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elmer@ylenurme.ee said: > why there can not be HOOKS in kernel ? > they arent crypto...
The US Government, in its wisdom, has decreed that crypto hooks aren't allowed to be exported either.
Presumably that's because without the hooks, we foreigners aren't even clever enough to link in the existing crypto we've already smuggled from the US, so that rule will stop us from using crypto just as effectively.
However, I believe you're allowed to export hooks if they're for compression. Apparently we're not clever enough to plug crypto modules into compression hooks either :)
N.B. This is sarcasm. That's one thing we _are_ capable of.
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