From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 15:20:07 EDT
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:02:42 CDT, Rick Irving said:
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> Hey, just a thought... does anyone know the "edge" of
> what say, Americans, are allowed to discuss with ,
> say, non-American's, with respect to crypto...
>
> I got zapped for an email to Australia once...
Zapped by whom? And what did you say?
Note that the *discussion* of crypto has always been pretty open, especially
as regarding published algorithms (they still get touchy if you start chatting
about NSA-only code ;). Note that discussion can be quite detailed - the
source code of PGP was released as a book.. ;)
The *big* problem was (until lately) the inability to export *source code*
or *object code* for crypto software.
-- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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