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Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Oct 29 16:29:29 2000

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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:49:10 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, cryptography@c2.net
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"William H. Geiger III" wrote:
> >What they _should_ do is use OpenSSL and work on that, instead of
> >reinventing the wheel.
> 
> IIRC the OpenSSL project was not accepting code from US sources. Has this policy changed?

Hmmm. Weeding out cruft from my mailbox and I found this. Looks like I
didn't answer. Yes, this policy has changed - OpenSSL now accepts US
contributions so long as they have obeyed the export laws.

BTW, I still think the best way to obey them is to subscribe the BXA to
every CVS mailing list in the world :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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doesn't mind who gets the credit."

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