Re: NSA, ITAR, NCSA and plug-in hooks.
are specifically designed for the insertion of cryptographic materials, or is it the fact that they could be used to support cryptographic enhancements?
Everything is decided on a case-by-case basis. I was in a meeting with some NSA export-control people (Dept Z03) and asked a few questions on this topic trying to nail down the angle of this slipper slope. Basically, generic buffer-manipulation is okay. "Keyed compression" where you explicitly passed something called a key to a DLL routine would be looked on suspiciously. An abstract set of open/modify/close routines (where open returned a pointer to opaque state, say a session key :) would be fine. The technical guy quickly grasped that I was talking about anonymous remailers, but they "conceded" there's nothing they can do about it. I say "concede" because that implies more political/control-issues then were really present at the meeting. /r$
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are specifically designed for the insertion of cryptographic materials, or is it the fact that they could be used to support cryptographic ... Basically, generic buffer-manipulation is okay. "Keyed compression" where you explicitly passed something called a key to a DLL routine would be looked on suspiciously. ...
Why would you call it a key? How about compression "options"? The compression algorithm could have a "speed" mode and a "size" mode. It could also have options for file type etc... Recipient id could be passed along to check which compression method the recipient knows. ...
An abstract set of open/modify/close routines (where open returned a pointer to opaque state, say a session key :) would be fine. ...
So what's the difference... apart from what it's called? Jiri - -- If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>. On sweeney, I may delete without reading! PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two) PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMKrQSyxV6mvvBgf5AQFUqAP/R3IGOey/1NbyyzTLYgRsrcbQtM1HHc73 PzXijxLJHvCjUTRaHS1feBRJv+dbwAMlH8yO+Q4DKuy5YCdv5f3kJz0Bsyejr8/C R3JOPSH4nePOGR8rfTK1AUMPQIGn50NXIaNT0OLdVSGU3444W4xruXiqkLlzduBn 2UNLX7DNXls= =wGpa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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