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Re: Why doesn't Sun release the crypto module of the OpenSPARC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Thu Jun 12 16:38:15 2008
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:36:24 -0500
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <OFEF5119C3.64B25C51-ON85257466.00615F71-85257466.0061D70F@us.ibm.com>
Richard Salz wrote:
> I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
> software.
>
That's an interesting observation, raising the issue of what is "speech"
vs hardware.
When I looked into this issue, I found the "Common Criteria"
certification methodology as evidence that "speech" covers everything
from the most high level abstract design description to the most
concrete representation of the hardware that you would look at, e.g. for
security certification assurance that electronic gates are properly
positioned by the Computer-Aided-Design tools. Hence, any information is
"speech", and if it's in the public domain, I would expect an export
control exception would apply. Only the actual silicon, and non
human-readable dies for the silicon, would be hardware.
Otherwise, I see no legal base to locate a cut-off point between
"speech" and hardware in the process of design refinements leading to
the actual processor.
Regards,
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