kernel@draper.net wrote:
>
> Under the circumstances, the European finance and e-business industries
> would have to be crazy to use U.S. crypto-based products. And they're
> not crazy.
>
> To play in this business in the rest of the world, the U.S. will have to
> have a clear, consistent, and favorable policy, and U.S. companies will
> have to present products that are demonstrably strong with no trap doors.
> (I invite you to speculate if this will happen before Hell frezes over.)
> In the meantime, there are plenty of non-U.S. products to choose from, and
> banks like UBS, Credit Suisse, Grupo Intesa, Societe General, Deutsche
> Bank, Generale Bank, Bank Austria, and Barclays are not sitting back
> anxiously waiting for U.S. products to become available. They're doing
> business with non-U.S. products that are just fine, thank you.
> </Quote>
>
> U.S. regulators continue to place limitations on conditions by which
> crypto implementations may be released, presumably with an eye towards
> preservation of evesdropping ability. Therefore, I urge that crypto
> functionality NOT be made subject to U.S. regulation, and therefore NOT
> be rolled into U.S. based kernel source trees.
>
> Once the free world (Zurich?) begins to accept that U.S. based crypto
> executables and source is untainted by government mandated "review"...
> then, and only then, should we revisit this question.
>
We're not submitting anything for government review... except what the
rest of the world sees. We're Open Source, and we shouldn't implement
anything but fully transparent peer-reviewed algorithms available in the
open literature.
-hpa
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