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Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 02:38:03 -0400
Export controls are legalisms. All the clever coding hacks we
perform are irrelevant, because we're dealing with beurocrats, not
human beings who know when they've had circles danced around them.
There are plenty of appropriate lists to discuss export
control laws. CodherPlunks ain't one of 'em.
Adam
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:26:11PM -0400, Ge' Weijers wrote:
| On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Lewis McCarthy wrote:
|
| > Serge E. Hallyn writes:
| > > Can anyone tell me, particularly with the new export rules, what the deal is
| > > with the legality of exporting software with encryption hooks?
| >
| > CodherPlunks is for discussing coding issues, while legal issues are appropriate
| > to cypherpunks, cryptography@c2.net, etc. I think the list charter for
| > CodherPlunks makes this rather clear....
|
| If there's a way to structure code that allows you to circumvent export
| restrictions it may well be a coding issue.
|
| If the program has some very generic hooks that can be used to do much
| more than encrypt you will probably be able to get away with it.
|
| - Ge'
|
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