No, in fact, I have not.
What are the impediments to corporate marketing of crypto where the marketing and distrubting entity is foreign? (I honestly don't know)
As a US entity, Community ConneXion is marketing an SSL-encrypting webserver based on the Apache-SSL developed by the Apache Group (worldwide) and Ben Laurie (in the UK). As both Ben and I would like to maintain a similar product both for domestic and international use, such that international corporations may deploy the application worldwide within their organization without compatibility problems, Ben has to write all the code, because I can't send him anything. (I've written code to incorporate new features, but once Ben writes code to incorporate those features, I will end up using his code, in order to maintain a stable codebase. -- duplicating effort.) As most OS vendors are located within the United States, it requires a significant effort for an OS vendor to include the product worldwide, because they need to contract out an outside US cd-pressing and product build facility in order to build the international version of their OS (or other application.. right now I'm concentrating on getting OS vendors to bunlde the prodcut) which bundles our product. It's doable. It's not trivial though. ITAR does help, in that if Ben decides to commercialize his product, we have a very convenient line which stops us from competing with each other. He can't sell inside the US because of RSA patents. I can't sell outside the US because of ITAR. ;-)
Granted, worldwide *personal* use of crypto availability is
trivial, but not corporate.
Sufficently entrench personal use of crypto, and the personal/corporate use distinction ceases to exist.
Not if some applications don't apply to personal use. -- Sameer Parekh Voice: 510-601-9777x3 Community ConneXion, Inc. FAX: 510-601-9734 The Internet Privacy Provider Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org/ (or login as "guest") sameer@c2.org