> From: Geoff Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> The strength of the cryptography being *used* across the
> border should not
> matter. Someone in the US can talk to my webserver at 128-bit
> crypto (and
> vice versa) if they want and are not guilty of exporting
> crypto. If they
> try to send me a 128-bit *tool* with which to conduct such
> transmissions
> then they do have a problem.
>
> The use of crypto is not the problem with the US (although it
> was/is in
> France and may be in other places too) ... it's the
> distribution of the
> tools with which to perform the crypto that is the sticking point.
Sorry for being insufficiently explicit. The company in Swiss is going
to have problems with US gov. not because they use encryption over the
border, but because they use in Swiss software that does strong
encryption that was developed in US. Namely - OpenSSL. Or am I wrong
again?
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Dmitry Rubinstein
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