From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr at domain lazerware.com)
Date: Mon 13 Sep 1999 - 19:21:58 IST
At 11:40 AM -0500 9/13/99, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
>I'm not sure I can be happy about this yet... not that the work isn't
>good or the feature needed, but I don't want to be deemed a criminal
>arms dealer by my government. :)
I don't know - it's kinda fun...
>AbiWord's CVS server is located in a country that prohibits its
>citizens from exporting strong cryptography. The definition of
>"strong" seems to change every day, and I'm neither a crypto expert
>nor a lawyer, so I'm really not sure how or if decryption of a
>stream qualifies as an armament.
Decryption only does not qualify, it's only the actual
encryption of data. This allows you to have a single product which
can decrypt any level of encryption (eg. both 40 bit and 128 bit RC4)
and then ship different encryption products depending on domestic vs.
international.
>Caolan, do you have any pointers to further information on the
>encryption scheme Word is using?
That would be generally interesting!!
Leonard
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