Vladimir Dergachev
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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.
>
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>
> -cw
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