[5008] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: write code outside US (Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Parekh)
Mon Jun 28 17:18:27 1999
From: Sameer Parekh <sameer@bpm.ai>
In-Reply-To: <199906252134.WAA25459@server.eternity.org> from Adam Back at "Jun 25, 1999 10:34: 4 pm"
To: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk (Adam Back)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: tomw@geocast.com, whgiii@openpgp.net, ben@algroup.co.uk,
rah@shipwright.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> I wonder why it never occured to anyone at Netscape to write their
> crypto outside the US? (I'd have thought perhaps some of those
It's been discussed, obviously. They made a conscious decision
to rely upon lobbying rather than actual work to get what they want.
--
sameer
