Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:52:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, bradley@dunn.org, scrappy@hub.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.03b8 and Encryption: Message-ID: <199710061852.LAA15966@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.3.876154044.7515.patl@asimov> from "patl@phoenix.volant.org" at Oct 6, 97 09:07:24 am
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> > Better yet, ask them to make encryption pluggable, and ask them for sample > > code for a 40 bit encryption, and make a 128 bit module for yourself. > > > > If you can get someone in S.A. (or elsewhere) to do it, then NetScape > > can work around the export restrictions (and Microsoft can't). This > > should be very desirable for them, actually. > > Great idea; but I believe that the export restrictions prohibit > pluggable cryptography. EBones. Any pluggable technology can be used to plug cryptography. Would you have me believe that pluggable technologies are prohibited? What about the socket for the DES chip on Sun SPARC Machines? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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