Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com> wrote...

Not likely. Sun will probably be required to agree not to do this as a condition of exporting software with "pluggable crypto". Software with hooks for crypto functions is treated the same as the actual crypto as far as the ITAR is concerned.

--Jeff

Just WHAT is a "hook" for crypto?? ;-) I've read about the Microsoft crypto API, other such hooks and the "ban on hooks", but who says a "hook" must be so "generic". With things such as the "component object model" stuff Microsoft is pushing and similar technologies in the UNIX world, I can still see "hooking" to crypto. Though perhaps more on an application-specific basis and not so "generically". I acknowledge that crypto which is nearly "invisible" to the end-user will make it more widespread, and thus the need for a generic API. Politicians and technology: like oil and water. -- "Rest enough for the individual man - [but] too Kevin Jessup much or too soon and we call it Death. But for software engineer MAN, no rest and no ending. He must go on, Marquette Medical Systems conquest beyond conquest...and when he has http://www.mei.com conquered all the depths of space and all the PGP Email preferred mysteries of time, still he will be beginning." kevin.jessup@meipws.mis.mei.com -- H.G. Wells, Things To Come