Eric Murray wrote:
Page 3 of the San Jose Mercury News has a small blurb about WebTV's browser/set-top box that "uses computer-security technology so powerful that the government is classifying it as a weapon that will require a special export license before it can be sold overseas".[...] shouldn't be too difficult. If they didn't use the "export" level SSL CipherTypes, then what're they up to? Are they fighting crypto export laws (for which they should be congratulated and supported) or are they just looking for free publicity?
Based on the lack of public policy pronouncements from the WebTV folks, I would answer C) They're clueless. I'm not sure that management even understood, or wanted to understand, that they'd have an export problem. See http://www.webtv.net/ -rich