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Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Roessler)
Tue Aug 17 19:04:22 1999
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:41:27 +0200
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>, Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>,
linux-ipsec@clinet.fi, cryptography@c2.net
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David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>,
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>, linux-ipsec@clinet.fi,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v03110718b3db70ec86cb@[205.186.214.245]>
On 1999-08-14 12:27:30 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
> It bothers me when people who are in favor of strong crypto
> automatically assume that anything which makes strong crypto easier
> will automatically be export controlled. This assertion is clearly
> wrong. The thing which most makes strong crypto easier is the
> (slow) general purpose CPU. These have never been export
> controlled.
In DuD 2/1998 (I recall, one of the Roth articles on export
control), a case is quoted in which re-exporting a US-fabricated
i386 PC to Poland in 1990 is said to have lead to a conviction.
