[79397] in Cypherpunks
Crypto hooks and EAR (Re: SAFE Bill is a Disaster--"Use a cipher, go to prison")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anil Das)
Thu May 1 23:07:33 1997
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 16:09:05 -0700
From: das@razor.engr.sgi.com (Anil Das)
In-Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
"Re: SAFE Bill is a Disaster--"Use a cipher, go to prison"" (May 1, 11:40am)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: das@razor.engr.sgi.com (Anil Das)
On May 1, 11:40am, Tim May wrote:
>
> I'm no expert in these areas, but doesn't this consitute "providing hooks"
> for strong crypto? The EARs say that a "hook" for inserting crypto modules
> once a product is exported are essentially as bad as providing the crypto
> before the product is exported.
If the EAR says that, I would like to have a reference to
the section, please, so I can look it up at jya.com. I am not
saying it is not there, just that I haven't seen it, and I would
like to see what the exact language is.
--
Anil Das
