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[VANILLA-L:41] RE: RSA crap and shared libraries



Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner@real-time.com):
> Quoting Darryl Palmer (Darryl_Palmer_Jr@msn.com):
> > Here is what I remember.  It it not only illegal to export a program with
> > crypto capabilities, but it is also illegal to export a program that doesn't
> > have the crypto algorithm in it, but has dummy links that can later be
> > plugged into a real algorithm, which is what the shared library would do.  I
> > think the only reason that Microsoft got around this for their Crypto-API is
> > that if they don't digital sign the algorithm then it won't work in NT.  And
> > they won't sign it if it is not in the best interest of the state
> > department.

This cannot be right. The vanilla source code is outside of the US and
it has the functional signatures to do RSA, which is activated with
the -DRSA compile option.

Hmph.

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