Re: europe v. US in crypto ( Re: [ILUG] dvd/cca and free software...)

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Tue 01 Feb 2000 - 12:33:34 GMT


Colin Whittaker said:

> but under wassenaar any crypto with published source exempted.

Oops -- yes, forgot that. But still, that means Irish companies who want
to work on crypto, need export licenses, whereas before they did not.
That is arguably a step back.

Also:

>So how many widely used algorithms dont have published source.
>Makes the rules a bit pointless, doesn't it.

It's not just the algorithms -- it's implementations as well.

--j.



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