Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?
David Feuer (dfeuer@his.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:00:58 -0500
David Weinehall wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Alan Olsen wrote:
>
> > On Jan 12, 4:41pm, christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:
> >
> > > I think nobody shall suffer of it.
> > > Just make a kernel with everithing needed for encryption but only
> > > xor encryption, and a separate patch that replaces xor by DES
> > >
> > > Everybody will be able to use the one they want.
> > >
> > > People ontside france can download nonDES version and patch it
> > > People inside france cannot download DES version and unpatch it,
> > > as they arent allowed to download a version with DES if Linus hasnt
> > > declared it to the government.
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > The US Government considers this kind of crypto hook the same as exporting
> > crypto. (Kind of the way that some religions equate lusting after a woman the
> > same as adultry. Allowing crypto into your source is the same as encrypting in
> > the real world.)
>
> Oh, but we wouldn't be adding crypto hooks. We'd be adding compression
> hooks... ;-P
>
> I hope compression isn't illegal?
>
> David Weinehall
There's a fine line between arithmetic coding and
encryption..... Redundancy~=0. If uses non-stored "tuning
parameter" to modeler, redundancy<0 (i.e. encrypted).
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