[47522] in Cypherpunks
Re: CryptoAPI and export question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Jan 19 03:28:50 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:07:18 -0800
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green), Tom Johnston <tomj@microsoft.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cryptapi@microsoft.com
At 07:36 PM 1/17/96 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
>So the main thing that the new MS CSP accomplishes is to establish a
>standard that will prevent foreigners at the OS level from using real
>crypto with popular applications. Way to go Microsoft.
It seems to me that Microsofts plan is carefully and ingeniously
designed to fail: They will do their best to restrain the export
of real crypto, but alas, in the end, they will regretfully admit
that they failed. Some evil person will have illegally exported
real crypto after they signed it. Too bad. How sad.
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