Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:22:05 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, David Weinehall wrote:

# Oh, but we wouldn't be adding crypto hooks. We'd be adding compression
# hooks... ;-P

That's right. We just need hooks that allow the format and the size of the
data to change without barfing. What its used for is official compression
algos, but what can we do if some hackers use it for other purposes?

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