Paul Rubin wrote:
Some countries have laws about cryptography software (against some
combination of export, import, or use). The Python maintainers didn't
want to deal with imagined legal hassles that might develop from
including good crypto functions in the distribution. Then it became
obvious that the same imagined hassles could also befall the rotor
module, so that was removed.
Do you know this for a fact? The PSF does comply with the U.S. American
export procedures for crypto code, and reports the crypto code in
Python appropriately to BXA.
Regards,
Martin
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