> On Thu, 13 May 1999 mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote:
>
> >
> > - Encryption at the IP level (IPsec?)
> >
> > Non-exportable, so cannot go into the standard kernel.
>
> Wrong. There is a court ruling that says that if source code to
> encryption is available, then the encryption is ruled as speech and as
> such, it is unconstitutional to limit the exportation of it.
Says http://www.eff.org/bernstein/19990507_eff_pressrel.html:
EFF anticipates
that the government will ask for a stay of this ruling pending appeal.
If granted, the stay would prohibit encryption exports even within the
Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction, including all federal courts in
California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Nevada,
Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, until the
matter is finally resolved.
The last I heard, France
(http://www.asi.fr/~martinez/crypto/project/FINAL.html#_Toc415913699) and
Russia had restrictions on the use of cryptography, and also the Wassenaar
Arrangement (http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/Cat5P2.html) might become a
problem for free software
(http://k-elektronik.org/berita/jan1999/rms.txt).
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Trevor Johnson
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