[47990] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Gurski)
Thu Jan 25 11:04:50 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:58:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Gurski <mgursk1@gl.umbc.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601250034.TAA09745@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > How exactly are crypto-hooks defined? This restriction seems orders
> > of magnitude more bogus than even the ban on exporting actual
> > encryption.
>
> Very vaguely. If I have a function that does something like this:
>
> authenticate (args)
> {
> ...
>
> des_encrypt ();
> ...
> }
>
> I would have to remove the des_encrypt() call from the authenticate()
> routine before it can be exported...
Would removing the call to des_encrypt() and replacing it with a
comment violate the restriction? something like:
authenticate (args)
{
...
/* squeamish ossifrage */
...
}
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