On Mon Jul 31 01:25:04 1995: you scribbled...
At 08:40 PM 7/28/95 -0400, Alex Tang wrote:
The answer is to have some non-USA entity build shareable full fledged full powered crypto libraries and provide them for free for the rest of the world and for all machines. Wouldn't there still be licensing issues to deal with (in the states at least)?? I'm sure RSA would claim that the package would be in violation of the licensing...
If you did everything in an RSAREF-compatible manner, that would help; I think somebody outside the US has written an RSAREF-clone. Some problems include building programs that have generic-callout hooks instead of crypto-specific hooks (so that they don't get bitten by ITAR), while still maintaining reasonable efficiency and convenience.
Yeah, this would work for everyone except commercial institutions within the states. They'd have to get a license agreement for RSA. ...alex... Alex Tang altitude@cic.net http://petrified.cic.net/~altitude CICNet: Unix Support / InfoSystems Services / WebMaster / Programmer Viz-It!: Software Developer (Check out http://vizit.cic.net) UM-ITD: TaX.500 Developer (Check out http://petrified.cic.net/tax500) Unofficial SSL/HTTPD FAQ: http://petrified.cic.net/~altitude/ssl/ssl.saga.html