This is somewhat tacky. SecureDNS exists, and TIS got export approval a while back to publish a "bones" version, minus encryption routines. John Gilmore and his lawyer decided that, since it only does authentication, not message encryption, it should be ok to publish _with_ the crypto algorithms, and it's been quietly sitting on his web pages. Recently the Feds sent him a letter saying "Oh, no, we didn't mean it was OK to publish/export this encryption-based authentication system just because the law says you can, so stop it".... Now they're paying for another version. Are they going to try something DSS-based instead of RSA, just so you don't need encryption-capable crypto with it, or is this going to be another scam? Or is it just different parts of the Feds not talking to each other?

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