> 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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